Abyss Quotes

356 quotes by 266 authors

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into… — John Ruskin
God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and… — Johannes Tauler
I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the… — Mechthild of Magdeburg
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the… — H. P. Blavatsky
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying? — Mansur Al-Hallaj
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be… — Yusef Komunyakaa
However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height… — Jules Verne
If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a… — Stephen Dillane
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every… — H. L. Mencken
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.… — Charles Caleb Colton
The universe is a philosophical abyss. — Kedar Joshi
We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt. — William James
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my… — Edvard Munch
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. — Fernando Pessoa
I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am,… — Susan Sarandon

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