Quote by Charles Williams

“He imagined that the great dark abyss of space was alive and that he might attract its attention if he stared too long into…

— Tom Melly

“The abyss above him shone with unflickering stars. One of the dots of light was Earth. He didn’t know which one.”

— James S.A. Corey

“The world was bright and strange and he was in the middle of it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau

“Having reached the summit of his vengeance by the slow and tortuous route that he had followed, he had looked over the far side…

— Alexandre Dumas

“I stood at the edge of the abyss and gazed into eternity with childlike wonder until I sprouted wings and took flight.”

— Susan Marie

“The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.”

— Jodi Picoult

“But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.”

— Edward Bunker

“Wheter outwardly or inwardly, wheter in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.”

— Charles A. Lindbergh

“...there was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.”

— David Weber

“The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe…

— Lucretius

“He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.”

— Scott Cairns