Top 444 Abyss Quotes & Sayings

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts. This may be the vocation of man: to say "Amen" to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.

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

The human soul is an abyss

Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

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

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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

The Greeks have needlessly been maneuvered towards the abyss.

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

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

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.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

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.

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

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.

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

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.

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.

Love guards the heart from the abyss.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

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.

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.

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

The truth is always an abyss.

Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

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

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

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

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

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

Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.

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.

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusa’s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same direction—is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusa’s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?

O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

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

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

Everything, alas, is an abyss, ? actions, desires, dreams, words!

I'd gazed into the abyss and the abyss had gazed back, just like Daddy always said it would: You want to know about life, Mac? It's simple. Keep watching rainbows, baby. Keep looking at the sky. You find what you look for. If you go hunting good in the world, you'll find it. If you go hunting evil . . . well, don't.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.