quotes about Abyss
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Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
-- Aleister CrowleySource : Aleister Crowley (1986). “Book of Lies”, Weiser Books
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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
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It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
-- Clarice LispectorSource : Clarice Lispector (1988). “The Passion According to G.H.”, p.139, U of Minnesota Press
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The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
-- Denis Johnson -
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
-- Franz Kafka -
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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 BuechnerSource : Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
-- Georg Buchner -
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He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.
-- Henning MankellSource : Henning Mankell (2013). “Italian Shoes: A Novel”, p.11, The New Press
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In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
-- James BlishSource : "A Case of Conscience". Book by James Blish, Chapter 13 (p. 158), 1958.
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We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
-- John Jeremiah SullivanSource : John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011). “Pulphead: Essays”, p.267, Macmillan
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The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
-- John PlayfairSource : John Playfair (1822). “The Works of John Playfair ...: With a Memoir of the Author ...”, p.81
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Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?
-- Nicolas Caussin -
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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
-- Octavio Paz -
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
-- Paul Tillich -
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
-- Richard Wagner -
Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.
-- Sally-Ann Roberts -
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When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.
-- Terry PratchettSource : "Thief Of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.
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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 FallodonSource : "Twenty-Five Years: 1892-1916". Book by Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 1925.