Abyss Quotes

356 quotes by 266 authors

When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss… — Vivica Fox
I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood,… — JoÃ« Bousquet
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the… — Carter Heyward
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape. — Davy Jones
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body energy, their whole… — Rajneesh
I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss. — Leonard of Port Maurice
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of… — Taylor Caldwell
For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast… — David Zindell
Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black… — Unknown Author
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become… — Unknown Author
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the… — Anna Politkovskaya
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely… — Paul Fussell
I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I… — Gen Urobuchi
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you… — John Green
The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the… — Jean Lorrain
I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that… — Elizabeth Lesser

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