Abysses Quotes

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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
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against… — Jack London
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. — Kate Chopin
But you canâ€™t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger… — Anne Lamott
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't… — Nicole Krauss
We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. — Fernando Pessoa
Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as… — Robert E. Howard
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a… — Nicole Krauss
In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth… — Edgar Allan Poe
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.'… — Elie Wiesel
We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a… — Pascal Mercier
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our… — Blaise Pascal

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