Abyss Quotes

Love guards the heart from the abyss.

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

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

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

The truth is always an abyss.

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

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

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

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

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.

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.

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

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

The human soul is an abyss

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

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

I myself am an absolute abyss.

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

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

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

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

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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

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

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.