Fathomless Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
— Adam Sedgwick
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Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose…
— Carl Jung
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Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.
— Walt Whitman
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them…
— David Abram
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If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set…
— Ned Beauman
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So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different…
— Caroline Knapp
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Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black…
— Robin Spriggs
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There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere…
— Laozi
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Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been…
— John Muir
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It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep…
— D. H. Lawrence
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For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have…
— Anthony Hopkins
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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air;…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
— Rudyard Kipling
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement…
— Frederick Buechner
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Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's…
— Jasper Fforde
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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.…
— Frederick Buechner
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She'd been impressed by his looks at first--those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes--but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on her now. She…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Fathomless Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Fathomless Quotes as follows: