Abyss Quotes

356 quotes by 266 authors

In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is… — Adyashanti
It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his heart where there… — Faraaz Kazi
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand… — John F. Kennedy
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. — Thomas Huxley
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never… — Charles Dickens
Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the… — Matthew Lillard
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it. — Stephen King
You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will… — Erich Ludendorff
He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss. — Paulo Coelho
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the… — Kenneth Koch
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. — Alberto Giacometti
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line… — Michael Connelly
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. — Paul Tillich
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on… — Emile Durkheim
What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus placed in your… — Pope Pius X
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will… — Unknown Author
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself. — Camille Paglia
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. — Camille Paglia
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, youâ€™re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger.… — Jon Krakauer

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