Abyss Quotes

356 quotes by 266 authors

The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of… — Pope Gregory I
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon,… — Michel Leiris
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. — Elon Musk
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary.… — Iannis Xenakis
We looked into the abyss if the gold price rose further. A further rise would have taken down one or several trading houses, which might… — Unknown Author
America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who… — Vladimir Lenin
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider… — Vernor Vinge
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall… — Simon Bolivar
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss… — Yusef Komunyakaa
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. — John Jeremiah Sullivan
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss… — Frederick Buechner
Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine. — Angelus Silesius
Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss. — Henning Mankell
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness… — Unknown Author
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss! — Laozi
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. — Ernest Hello

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