Abyss Quotes

356 quotes by 266 authors

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag… — Charles Schumer
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to… — Rachel Carson
I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America,… — Frank Church
Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it. — Georg Buchner
STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark… — Kealan Patrick Burke
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is… — Jean de la Bruyere
The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time. — John Playfair
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. — Eduardo Galeano
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without… — Julien Green
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect. — Jenny Eclair
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. — Gustave Flaubert
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out… — Hal Holbrook
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go… — Victor Hugo
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or… — Thomas Huxley
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. — H P Lovecraft
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is… — Thomas Merton
The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly. — Olivier Messiaen

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