logo

Quotes About Abyss

There are things out there in the night where light cannot exist that make Cthulhu look like a Care Bear.
~ Charles Stross
when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error.
~ Charles Stross
We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.
~ Helmut Kohl
This cave within a cave, this paleolithic pussy, this decent into the deepest dark of fuck.
~ Tom Robbins
If they but knew it, all men, some time or other, cherish the same feelings toward the abyss with me.
~ Kevin Baker
Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.
~ Kohta Hirano
The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego.
~ Carol Anthony
When I look into my heart, and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
~ George M. Marsden
Eroticism is the brink of the abyss. I'm leaning out over deranged horror (at this point my eyes roll back in my head). The abyss is the foundation of the possible. We're brought to the edge of the same abyss by uncontrolled laughter or ecstasy. From this comes a "questioning" of everything possible. This is the stage of rupture, of letting go of things, of looking forward to death.
~ Georges Bataille
Gripped by a feverish urge to climb, he felt like running up the stone stairs. People often talk of the attraction of the abyss. There is also the abyss above. Borluut was still going up; he would have liked to keep on going up for ever, melancholy at the thought that the stairway was doubtless going to stop and that at the end, on the edge of the air, he would still yearn to continue, go farther, higher.
~ Georges Rodenbach
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
~ Austin O'Malley
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The human soul is an abyss
~ Fernando Pessoa
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
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. ~Taylor Caldwell
~ Taylor Caldwell
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
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes
~ Dan Brown
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
~ John Oates
Those long endless nights of gray voids, an abyss of hell really, a bleak nothingness, occasionally interrupted by a battle with the undead, there had been no hope left. He had forgotten joy. Laughter. Fun. Maybe he had never known it. Now there was Adalasia with her brightness.
~ Christine Feehan
I have never encountered, not even in witchcraft trials, a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss to erase the evidence of his misdeed—then
~ Umberto Eco
The whole city seemed to be pinned down, fascinated by the glassy stare of the Lubyanka. Krymov had thought about various people he knew. Their distance from him was something that couldn't even be measured in space -they existed in another dimension. No power on earth or in heaven could bridge this abyss, an abyss as profound as death itself. But these people weren't yet lying under a nailed-down coffin-lid – they were here beside him, alive and breathing, thinking, weeping.
~ Vasily Grossman
The abyss sometimes has these thoughtful ideas; but you will do well to beware of its kindness.
~ Victor Hugo
Vi sono abissi che salvano.
~ Victor Hugo
En aquel instante, en lo más recóndito de mi corazón, se abrió un agujero tan pequeño como el pinchazo de un alfiler. Y, como si se tratara de un agujero negro, en un instante lo engulló todo. El paisaje de alrededor, el tiempo transcurrido. Y, mientras yo mismo era absorbido hacia aquel pasado que tan lejano me había parecido, resurgió... [su] voz...
~ Ky?ichi Katayama