Best 137 quotes in «abyss quotes» category

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.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

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.

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.

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

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A growing heat, like a million blazing suns all focused on me, lit my insides. It felt like I was being cooked in the Gabriella Roast Cooker, me spinning around-and-around to heat my flesh evenly. For some reason I was having trouble comprehending the sudden change in my revolving world as I swelled with a horrible, billowing fire.

A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe.

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.

«And in the end» said the witch to the drowning prince «You've been the one choosing the thornless path in spite of knowing where it could lead. The one who afraid of the pricking roses, plunged himself into an abyss without petals

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

An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.