A Quote by Denis Johnson

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

Denis Johnson

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Abyss Alive Experiences Full Itself Reality

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Denis Johnson
German - Writer
July 1, 1949 - May 24, 2017

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

King Tuff

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Camille Paglia

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

Michael Connelly

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

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

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Clarice Lispector

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.