Abyss Quotes

356 Abyss quotes by 266 unique authors

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us,… — Nathaniel Branden
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I'd gazed into the abyss and the abyss had gazed back, just like Daddy always said it would: You want to know about life, Mac?… — Karen Marie Moning
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. — Cesare Pavese
When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not… — Elie Wiesel
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and… — Fawzia Koofi
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make… — Emma Goldman
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss. — Octavio Paz
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory… — Paul Cezanne
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which… — Robert M. Lindner
[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

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