Abyss Quotes

356 Abyss quotes by 266 unique authors

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. — Alberto Giacometti
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line… — Michael Connelly
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. — Paul Tillich
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on… — Emile Durkheim
What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus placed in your… — Pope Pius X
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will… — Unknown Author
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself. — Camille Paglia
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. — Camille Paglia
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger.… — Jon Krakauer
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of… — Pope Gregory I
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon,… — Michel Leiris
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. — Elon Musk
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary.… — Iannis Xenakis
We looked into the abyss if the gold price rose further. A further rise would have taken down one or several trading houses, which might… — Unknown Author
America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who… — Vladimir Lenin
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider… — Vernor Vinge
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall… — Simon Bolivar
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss… — Yusef Komunyakaa
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. — John Jeremiah Sullivan
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss… — Frederick Buechner
Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine. — Angelus Silesius

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