Abyss Quotes

356 Abyss quotes by 266 unique authors

Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for… — Rick Yancey
The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but… — Markus Zusak
It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into… — Makoto Shinkai
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. — Anais Nin
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss. — Franz Kafka
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. — Jean de la Bruyere
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . .… — Unknown Author
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our… — Blaise Pascal
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as… — Simone Weil
The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't… — Regina Brett
We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss. — Democritus
Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world… — Leonardo Boff
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? — Thomas Merton
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict. — John Calvin
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen -… — Rajneesh
In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication… — Paul Johnson
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of… — Ben Okri
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It… — Ben Okri
With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead… — Helene D. Gayle
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss. — Andrei A Gromyko
Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk… — Eric Clapton
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose… — Hugh Miller
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were… — Edward Grey

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