Best 137 quotes in «abyss quotes» category

What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!

What is more thrilling than BASE jumping into the abyss of one’s imagination?

When a man is standing at the top of a cliff, it isn’t fear of falling that keeps him rooted to the edge — it’s the fear of not being able to resist the desire to jump, just to see what falling feels like.

When I came to see you It hurt me how thin you had become In the months of addiction & disease & although your particular abyss Was a man & not a drug The degradation was the same The same wasting of the flesh The same tapped-out well emptied Of the least leaf of emotion The same frozen rage

When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The days had shortened and night came swiftly. One moment it was light, the next it was dark. The sun did not set but fell into the water like a meteor. Late in the evening, when I went out briefly, a hot wind slapped my face. From the ocean came a roar of passions that seemed to have broken through all barriers:'We mus procreate and multiply! We must exhaust all the powers of lust!' The waves glowed like lava, and I imagined I could see multitudes of living beings - algae, whales, sea monsters - reveling in an orgy, from the surface to the bottom of the sea. Immortality was the law here. The whole planet raged with animation. At times, I heard my name in the clamor: the spirit of the abyss calling me to join them in their nocturnal dance. ("Hanka")

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

When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

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.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

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

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

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.

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

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

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

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

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.

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

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

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

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 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.