Best 137 quotes in «abyss quotes» category

We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing down too hard. Hit your heel into it and you make a hole in which you will disappear. True philosophy has never consisted in probing all problems, but often on the contrary eluding them. We are skirting an abyss: beware of vertigo.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

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

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

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

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

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

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.

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 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.

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