Top 444 Abyss Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
Come once a day to suffocate the sight.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.
Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!
There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
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.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
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?
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.
All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!
The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.
