Quotes About Abyss

And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

Omul e doar o funie, întins? între bestie ÅŸi Supraom — o funie peste un abis

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one Ã¢â'¬Â¦

a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.

At the same time, the truth is that we are beloved, even in our current condition, by someone; we have loved and been loved. We have also known the abyss of love lost to death or rejection, and that it somehow leads to new life. We have been redeemed and saved by love, even as a few times we have been nearly destroyed, and worse, seen our children nearly destroyed. We are who we love, we are one, and we are autonomous.

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...

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.

Her strong, warm clasp did not falter, but her panic grew. An abyss seemed opening at her feet too, as for the first time in her life she realized the meaning of death. However strong religious faith may be, death remains an abyss that swallows the familiar companion of everyday as though he had never been. It is the most awful fact of human life, and at the moment Marianne knew it not only with her mind but for the first time with her panic-stricken soul as well.

Abyss calls to abyss." It is there in the very depths that the divine impact takes place, where the abyss of our nothingness encounters the Abyss of mercy, the immensity of the all of God. There we will find the strength to die to ourselves and, losing all vestige of self, we will be changed into love.

I stood here, and saw before me the unutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, the world of matter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim before me, and in that instant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned.

Dormidos al borde de un abismo que los cortesanos y los oportunistas cubren de flores —concluye, casi poético.

Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund, es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

Love is no destruction, but rather instruction, nourishment and sustenance for those who trust in it, for Love is repletion and the abyss and the fullness of the sea.

Poetry scares her, with its glimpses of the abyss between the slats of the swaying bridge.

No era el miedo a los abismos galácticos lo que helaba su alma, sino una más profunda inquietud, que brotaba desde el futuro aún por nacer.

God's incomprehensibility cannot be superseded. Human existence, therefore, could be described as grounded in the abyss of mystery, and human relationship with God could be characterized as openness to mystery.

crashes down the abyss—sheer doom! No footing helps, all foothold lost and gone.

To the depths of terror, too dark to hear, to see.