Abyss Quote by Anonymous

I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That…

— Anonymous

“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as…

— Victor Hugo

There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see…

— Mark Lawrence

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And…

— John Crowe Ransom

“I had to bear the sunken glare of his fierce crow-footed eyes if I wanted to know; and so I bore it, reflecting how…

— Joseph Conrad

“There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And…

— Katharine Mary Briggs

“The Lurking Fear: Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined condors of purple fulgurous sky... formless phantasms…

— H.P. Lovecraft

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

— Terry Pratchett

“There were many paths that led up into those mountains, and many passes over them. But most of the paths were cheats and deceptions…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

— David Morrissey