Abysses Quotes
39 quotes by 30 authors
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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he…
— A. E. Housman
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Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender…
— Thomas Huxley
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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being,…
— Victor Hugo
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
— Gustave Flaubert
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One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and…
— Thomas Merton
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[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with…
— Martin Heidegger
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Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness…
— Melvin B. Tolson
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Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are…
— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
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Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and…
— Faith Baldwin
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Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or…
— Jacques Maritain
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The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
— Farkas Bolyai
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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
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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
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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
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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
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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
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