Abyss Quotes
356 Abyss quotes by 266 unique authors
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I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I…
— Aleister Crowley
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We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a…
— Pascal Mercier
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She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.
— Cassandra Clare
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Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. "Please, Tommy. Please." With…
— James Dashner
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Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm; it…
— Rajneesh
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I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful,…
— Charles Dickens
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I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
— David Mitchell
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He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that…
— Dodie Smith
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In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's…
— Paolo Giordano
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Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
— Heinrich Heine
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[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The human soul is an abyss
— Fernando Pessoa
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It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
— Clarice Lispector
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Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
— John Green
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...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.
— Terry Pratchett
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Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while…
— Dan Brown
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I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with…
— Ruta Sepetys
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