I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue… In brief, let me see in you an abyss of… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Research is necessary. However, you need to make sure you don't fall into its trap. You need to have time left for… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“. . . for us there still exists a serene, unfathomable abyss in which God and the spirits dwell. The soul, in… — Adalbert Stifter Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Deal with all this, live with myself, you mean? I honestly don't know. I stand often enough at the abyss of my… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“When the earliest Vikings started moving into the northern oceans, there’s one story about finding this huge fuckin opening at the top… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you” — John Green Copy Share Image
My sweet's gaze I dare not meet too long, although it may be bliss. For it her eyes of ocean blue, I… — Richie Copy Share Image
“Trust is when we plummet into the depths of an abyss and reach out for each other’s hands. —Amaderan Poetry, various authors… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. — Zhu Rongji Copy Share Image
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is… — Stephen Hadley Copy Share Image
“If you keep on retaliating what you receive, you'll be stuck in a infinite abyss of revenge and vendetta.” — Pushkar Saraf Copy Share Image
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“He who fears being watched from the abyss will be unable to look into it himself. The truth can only be obtained… — Sadamu Yamashita Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image