Abyss Quotes

356 quotes by 266 authors

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away… — Richard Dooling
The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow… — John M. Geddes
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.… — Arthur C. Clarke
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of… — Nikos Kazantzakis
We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished:… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and… — Faith Baldwin
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the… — Anatoly Karpov
O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's… — Delmore Schwartz
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil. — Pope Benedict XVI
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all… — Hugh Miller
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. — Terence McKenna
Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the… — Richard Davidson
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it. — Blaise Pascal
There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers
Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and gave… — John of Kronstadt
Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave. — John Milton
I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far… — W S Merwin
If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity. — Seth Godin

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