Abysses Quotes

39 Abysses quotes by 30 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert
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
[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
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
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness… — Unknown Author
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
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
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
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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