Best 137 quotes in «abyss quotes» category

When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

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

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

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

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

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

After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to formulate a system in which an individual could believe in God, government or self. Again like Kafka, she looked into the great abyss which separated the spiritual and the material and saw the terrifying emptiness, the hollowness, at the heart of every man, a sense of alienation she felt compelled to explore in her fiction. As her next hero, she would take an architect, 'a young man whose authority is art and therefore himself,' who when he murders, 'feels no guilt or even fear when he thinks of legal retribution'. The more she read of Kafka the more she felt afraid as she came to realise, 'I am so similar to him.