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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. -- H. P. Lovecraft
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. -- Gustave Flaubert
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. -- Richard Wagner
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. -- Honore de Balzac
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. -- Zhu Rongji
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. -- Joseph Campbell
The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly. -- Olivier Messiaen
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. -- William Butler Yeats
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. -- Hal Holbrook
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? -- Eugenio Montale
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. -- Thomas Merton
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring. -- Mason Cooley
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations -- Aleister Crowley
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil. -- Graham Hawkes
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. -- Ernest Hello
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. -- Marguerite Young
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science. -- Winston Churchill
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
If you die, Lily ... I'll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape. -- Nalini Singh
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. -- Thomas Huxley
The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss. -- Tammy Bruce
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground -- Paula Cole
We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence. -- Edward Forbes
At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss. -- Richard Dooling
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. -- David R. Brower
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. -- Lea Thompson
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. -- Eduardo Galeano
Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green. -- Eric Clapton
If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling. -- Stephen Dillane
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly. -- Troy Polamalu
Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. -- Ben Shapiro
The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step. -- Regina Brett
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. -- Andrew Cohen
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss. -- Richard Dooling
Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity. -- Sally-Ann Roberts
The universe is a philosophical abyss. -- Kedar Joshi
She felt the abyss of disenchantment. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I myself am an absolute abyss. -- Antonin Artaud
The truth is always an abyss. -- Franz Kafka
The human soul is an abyss -- Fernando Pessoa
Love guards the heart from the abyss. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss. -- Henning Mankell
One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps. -- David Lloyd George
Cities are the abyss of the human species. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The fear is the abyss between failure and success. -- Alexander Zalan
The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss! -- Laozi
The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss. -- Guillermo del Toro
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything, alas, is an abyss, Â? actions, desires, dreams, words! -- Charles Baudelaire
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return -- George Washington
He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss. -- Paulo Coelho
Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach. -- John Milton
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. -- George Orwell
We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss. -- Democritus
You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled! -- Emily Bronte
A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time. -- John Updike
All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump! -- Nikos Kazantzakis
And so, she turned her back on the abyss for another day. -- Megan Kennedy
When you look into the abyss, it's not supposed to wave back. -- Terry Pratchett
Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave. -- John Milton
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut. -- James Broughton
Books"?they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions. -- John Green
We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land. -- D.B. Nielsen
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. -- Franz Kafka
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss. -- Octavio Paz
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt. -- William James
Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss. -- Lord Byron
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it. -- Stephen King
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. -- Anais Nin
In the absence of an abyss, I filled my invisible void with love. -- Jarod Kintz
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss. -- Franz Kafka
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. -- Thomas Huxley
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. -- Elon Musk
The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive. -- Denis Johnson
Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams! -- John Ramsay
Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight. -- Allen Tate
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge. -- Stephen Levine
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it. -- Georg Buchner
On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time. -- John Playfair
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss. -- Andrei A. Gromyko
When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss. -- Dave Mustaine
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. -- Emile Durkheim
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. -- Terence McKenna
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.''I won't let you fall. -- Nalini Singh
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it. -- Blaise Pascal
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! -- James Blish
...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into. -- Supervert
If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back. -- Seth Klarman
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. -- Antonio Porchia
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future. -- William Beckford
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. -- Fernando Pessoa
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself. -- Camille Paglia
Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. -- Sri Chinmoy
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. -- Camille Paglia
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? -- Thomas Merton
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of. -- Clarice Lispector
I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist. -- Benedict Joseph Labre
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning. -- Meridel Le Sueur
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. -- Paul Tillich
If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity. -- Seth Godin

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