Abyss Quotes

356 quotes by 266 authors

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or… — Jacques Maritain
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of… — St. Jerome
A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's… — Matt Shea
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an… — Edward Forbes
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another… — Charles Dickens
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us,… — Nathaniel Branden
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I'd gazed into the abyss and the abyss had gazed back, just like Daddy always said it would: You want to know about life, Mac?… — Karen Marie Moning
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. — Cesare Pavese
When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not… — Elie Wiesel
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and… — Fawzia Koofi
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make… — Emma Goldman
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss. — Octavio Paz
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory… — Paul Cezanne
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which… — Robert M. Lindner

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