Abyss Quote by Robin Spriggs

“But madness? That small remnant of altered consciousness, pure or in response to circumstances. Circumstances of life, even those of the body itself and…

— Kate Millett

“There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable, mostly harmless…

— Darrell Drake

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for…

— Jack Kerouac

“Beneath the haunted castle lies the dungeon keep: the womb from whose darkness the ego first emerged, the tomb to which it knows it…

— Leslie A. Fiedler

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am a child of that palace,Living like a slave So that you can relate

— Chege Mbugua

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And…

— John Crowe Ransom

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…

— Allen Ginsberg

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance…

— Michael Silverblatt

Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The Lurking Fear: Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined condors of purple fulgurous sky... formless phantasms…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“every night, when he didn't want to be alone, or to age or die, with that set expression he assumed which she occasionally recognized…

— Albert Camus