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Quotes About Abyss

Between them, the fear, the fear shared in common, and, through the fear, the abyss of fear over which they join one another without being able to do so, dying, each alone, of fear.
~ Maurice Blanchot
An abyss is not nothing; it has environs & edges.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Adolf Hitler had led one of the most educated and cultured societies on earth to a moral, political and military abyss. He now sought to ensure that as many as possible of his own people accompanied him over the brink.
~ Max Hastings
Please tread carefully and keep away from the shadows; you are about to enter the abyss.
~ Unknown
When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you. (~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
~ Megan Abbott
Contar una historia es echar sombras a la lumbre. En ese preciso instante, todo lo que la palabra revela lo consume el silencio. Solo quien reza entregando por completo el alma sabe lo que significa ese arder y esa caída de la palabra en los abismos.
~ Mia Couto
Love is an abyss. To somehow find it beautiful while it's killing you is what it means to be something other than an animated corpse.
~ Unknown
a good profiler, who truly wants to understand the serial killer, must have been prepared by life experiences before he or she can dare to venture into the abyss. A person who has led a protected life will not survive.
~ Unknown
In the desperation of the oncoming abyss, one may desire hope for its avoidance of reality; but hopelessness embraces the reality, recognizing that commitment to liberative principles is what defines our very humanity.
~ Unknown
en el fondo del abismo se encuentran la desesperación sentimental y volitiva y el escepticismo ra cional frente a frente, y se abrazan como hermanos. Y
~ Miguel de Unamuno
And I looked down into the end of the world and saw the beast, and in his right hand was the key to the bottomless pit.' - Pope Sylvester II, A.D. 999
~ Mike Mignola
Singur în odaia încins?, poÈ›i coborî în fine în lumea ta, în adev?rul t?u, în tot ce exist? adânc È™i enigmatic în tine, dac? eÈ™ti în stare s?-ntâmpini cu acelaÈ™i curaj abjectia È™i sublimul, dezastrul È™i mântuirea, arhanghelul È™i estropiatul...
~ Unknown
It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.
~ Mohsin Hamid
You hear jazz. How music sounds piercing your mind and thinking. Jazz is an energy that dissolves your brain and throws your thoughts into the abyss. As if the cigarette smoke is all that remains of our thoughts that burn out in us. This is the mood of the soul. This is the silence of the city and the romance of life.
~ Unknown
The fruit in the garden was not about knowledge, but about not knowing, about looking into a face and having no idea whether you should kiss it or strike it. Hell is a thousand such small abysses.
~ Unknown
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall.
~ Nalini Singh
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.
~ Nalini Singh
The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
~ Oliver Stone
Deep within Shinto temples in Japan you find only a mirror. It is a symbol and a riddle. The risk there is of turning in upon the Self. But the Christian knows that the Self is the image of Christ. And Christ is the faithful mirror who reflects the truth not only of creatures and objects, but also of the Self that is no longer an undifferentiated abyss but the interior expression of a face.
~ Olivier Clement
The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
I wasn't exactly much fun to be around. Being with me was like falling into an abyss.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
The sea is not a surface. It is, from top to bottom, an abyss. "If you want to cross the sea, sink.
~ Unknown
He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like i'm standing on the edge of an Abyss, that I'm about to fall down into him, into blackness so empty and lonely there'd never be a way out.
~ Patrick Ness