Abyss Quotes

356 Abyss quotes by 266 unique authors

People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping… — Franz Kafka
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss. — Guillermo del Toro
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat… — Eugene B. Sledge
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have… — Henry Rollins
Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come… — Catherine Fisher
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't… — Nicole Krauss
We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. — Fernando Pessoa
Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. — Sri Chinmoy
Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as… — Robert E. Howard
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return — George Washington
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 lifeâ€¦ Or end itâ€¦ 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

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