Abyss Quote by Emile Durkheim

“And so it is that the bulk of what appear to be the emotional renderings of our inmost sensations do no more than relieve…

— Marcel Proust

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

— Nathanael West

Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger universe. We…

— Harville Hendrix

“We spend all our time trying to insulate ourselves from negative sensations and emotions, and we end up stunted on both ends.”

— Johnny B. Truant

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be…

— RM

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or…

— Saul Bellow

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

— Anonymous

When we focus mostly on our immediate needs, wants, and desires, we may achieve some of them but hardly feel satisfied. When we feel…

— Tara Stiles

We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly…

— Pema Chodron

I myself am an absolute abyss.

— Antonin Artaud

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible,…

— Edmund Burke