Abyss Quotes

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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and… — George Bernard Shaw
We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building… — Barack Obama
One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and… — Thomas Merton
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material… — St. Catherine of Siena
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw,… — Charles Dickens
Cities are the abyss of the human species. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means… — Oliver Goldsmith
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe.… — Otto von Bismarck
I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version,… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is… — Soren Kierkegaard
Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in… — John Milton
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my… — Camille Claudel
Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with… — Martin Heidegger
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! — James Blish
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as… — Paula Cole
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me,… — Fernando Pessoa
Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway reality, sex is… — Rajneesh
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup,… — H. L. Mencken
I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some… — Gangaji

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