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Abyss Quotes

1.
Love guards the heart from the abyss.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Authors on Abyss Quotes: Friedrich Nietzsche Nikos Kazantzakis Fernando Pessoa Franz Kafka James Blish Antonin Artaud Clarice Lispector John Jeremiah Sullivan Gabriel Garcia Marquez Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Guillermo del Toro Richard Wagner James Broughton William James Blaise Pascal John Playfair J. R. R. Tolkien David Lloyd George Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Aleister Crowley John Updike Denis Johnson Frederick Buechner Stephen King Henning Mankell Sally-Ann Roberts Anais Nin Haruki Murakami Diane de Poitiers Seth Klarman George Orwell Terry Pratchett
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.
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

10.
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
Aleister Crowley

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

17.
I myself am an absolute abyss.
Antonin Artaud

18.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
George Orwell

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

24.
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
William James

25.
Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.
J. R. R. Tolkien

26.
On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

27.
Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.
Sally-Ann Roberts

28.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

29.
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

30.
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
Guillermo del Toro

31.
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
Paul Tillich

32.
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
James Blish

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

39.
When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

40.
... 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

41.
If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
Seth Klarman

42.
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
George Washington

43.
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

44.
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

45.
All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!
Nikos Kazantzakis

46.
One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.
David Lloyd George

47.
The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
Denis Johnson

48.
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
Stephen King

49.
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.
James Broughton

50.
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
Anais Nin