Abyss Quotes

356 Abyss quotes by 266 unique authors

Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a… — Nicole Krauss
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From… — Terry Goodkind
We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint… — Haruki Murakami
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world… — Terence McKenna
There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it. — Emily Dickinson
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge… — Italo Calvino
The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth… — Edgar Allan Poe
There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to… — John Connolly
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the… — Charles Baudelaire
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.'… — Elie Wiesel
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. — Alan Moore
I myself am an absolute abyss. — Antonin Artaud
But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came… — Haruki Murakami
If you die, Lily ... I’ll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so… — Nalini Singh
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall. — Nalini Singh
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through… — Marcel Proust
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else. — Kate Morton
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss.… — Winston Churchill
I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time. — Tammara Webber
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt… — Yukio Mishima
Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to… — Henri Nouwen
There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot… — Ivo Andric

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