Abyss Quotes

356 Abyss quotes by 266 unique authors

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or… — Thomas Huxley
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. — H P Lovecraft
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is… — Thomas Merton
The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly. — Olivier Messiaen
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man… — Eugenio Montale
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of… — Vladimir Nabokov
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. — Zhu Rongji
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. — Lea Thompson
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. — Richard Wagner
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss… — William Butler Yeats
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. — Marguerite Young
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!… — Kate Chopin
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka
Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!… — Emily Bronte
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!… — Victor Hugo
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. — Paulo Coelho
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday… — Franz Kafka
Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master! — J.R.R. Tolkien

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