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.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

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

... 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.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

The universe is a philosophical 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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