“Man cannot sprout wings unless he has first reached the brink of the abyss!” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“You only taste the blood of your soul by cracking open and reaching into the abyss.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Disclaimer: Consider all perceived errors and scrutinize all self-evident truths.” — Adam Scott Huerta Copy Share Image
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil. — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
“A familiar, dark fire rippled in her gut, spreading through her, dragging her down into an abyss without end. Celaena Sardothien stood… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist. — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we… — Barbara Holland 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
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
“for we all have our own twilights and mists and abysses to return to.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. — Lea Thompson Copy Share Image
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
