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Abyss Quotes

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Love guards the heart from the abyss.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Authors on Abyss Quotes: Friedrich Nietzsche Nikos Kazantzakis Fernando Pessoa Franz Kafka Henning Mankell Sally-Ann Roberts Haruki Murakami Anais Nin Seth Klarman Diane de Poitiers George Orwell Terry Pratchett Georg Buchner Angelus Silesius Jean-Jacques Rousseau Octavio Paz Dylan Thomas Paul Tillich George Washington Sebastian Horsley James Blish Antonin Artaud John Jeremiah Sullivan Gabriel Garcia Marquez Clarice Lispector Guillermo del Toro Richard Wagner Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon James Broughton William James John Playfair J. R. R. Tolkien Blaise Pascal
2.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

3.
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
Clarice Lispector

4.
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
Franz Kafka

5.
The truth is always an abyss.
Franz Kafka

6.
We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
Fernando Pessoa

7.
Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.
Henning Mankell

8.
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
Angelus Silesius

9.
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
Aleister Crowley

10.
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.
Frederick Buechner

11.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner

12.
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

13.
When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

14.
She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

15.
The human soul is an abyss
Fernando Pessoa

16.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
George Orwell

17.
When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.
Terry Pratchett

18.
I myself am an absolute abyss.
Antonin Artaud

19.
A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.
John Updike

20.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
Blaise Pascal

21.
The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
John Playfair

22.
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
Georg Buchner

23.
Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.
J. R. R. Tolkien

24.
On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

25.
Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.
Sally-Ann Roberts

26.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

27.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
Friedrich Nietzsche

28.
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
William James

29.
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
James Blish

30.
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.
Fernando Pessoa

31.
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
Guillermo del Toro

32.
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
Paul Tillich

33.
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
Nikos Kazantzakis

34.
All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.
Dylan Thomas

35.
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
Octavio Paz

36.
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Sebastian Horsley

37.
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?
Nikos Kazantzakis

38.
When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

39.
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
John Jeremiah Sullivan

40.
One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.
David Lloyd George

41.
The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
Denis Johnson

42.
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
Stephen King

43.
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.
James Broughton

44.
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
Anais Nin

45.
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
Diane de Poitiers

46.
If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
Seth Klarman

47.
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
George Washington

48.
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.
Haruki Murakami

49.
All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!
Nikos Kazantzakis

50.
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.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon