Abyss Quotes

356 Abyss quotes by 266 unique authors

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.… — Charles Caleb Colton
The universe is a philosophical abyss. — Kedar Joshi
We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt. — William James
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my… — Edvard Munch
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. — Fernando Pessoa
I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am,… — Susan Sarandon
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

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