Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Edward Bunker

“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

“...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the…

— Domenico Starnone

“I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up…

— Haruki Murakami

“The terrible agony that had been unleashed here seemed to remain coiled in the air, poised, ready to snatch at his sanity. In self-defense,…

— Steven Erikson

“His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away under him,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Great— just what he needed, to discover that he had a submissive streak at the moment of his possible impending death.”

— M.J. Lawless

“Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“Thought failed him, and he returned to realities.”

— Thomas Hardy

“He was the same as everyone else: he carried his past inside him. There was no escape from it. No matter how hard you…

— Louise Douglas