Quotes About Abyss

Wer auf dem Kopf geht, der hat den Himmel als Abgrund unter sich.

The day after the British entered the war Henry James wrote a friend: The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness... is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually bettering, that to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really making for and meaning is too tragic for any words.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

We see now that the abyss of history is deep enough to hold us all.

And the abyss shouts from her depth laid bare, Heaven, hast thou secrets? Man unveils me; I have none.

One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair."4

And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.

or, ëWho will descend into the Abyss?í (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.

The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.

When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.

The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.

And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.