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
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
13.
When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
17.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
George Orwell
18.
When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.
Terry Pratchett
19.
A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.
John Updike
20.
The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
John Playfair
21.
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
Georg Buchner
22.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
Blaise Pascal
23.
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
William James
24.
Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.
J. R. R. Tolkien
28.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
Friedrich Nietzsche
29.
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
Paul Tillich
30.
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
James Blish
31.
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
33.
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Sebastian Horsley
34.
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
35.
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
Nikos Kazantzakis
36.
All world was one, one windy nothing,
My world was christened in a stream of milk.
Dylan Thomas
37.
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
Octavio Paz
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.
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
41.
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
44.
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
Stephen King
45.
The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
Denis Johnson
46.
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.
James Broughton
47.
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
Anais Nin
48.
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
George Washington
49.
... 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
50.
If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
Seth Klarman