Abyss Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

— Gustave Flaubert

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there…

— Anonymous

There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon…

— Emily Dickinson

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered. Abyssal and buried it terrifies your lovers. These trenches carved in your heart from…

— B. Youngz

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But at the best, it is a dull, animal happiness, the content of the full belly. The dominant note of their lives is materialistic.…

— Jack London

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that…

— Anonymous

The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms…

— Sam Keen

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche