Quotes About Abyss

ABYSM  (ABY'SM)   n.s.[abysme, old Fr. now written contractedly abîme.]A gulf; the same with abyss. My good stars, that were my former guides,Have empty left their orbs, and shot their firesInto the abysm of hell.Shakespeare'sAntony and Cleopatra.

What if they found a trapdoor out of this dead universe? A hole? A black hole? A place where the tyranny of time and space couldn't reach?

There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain and exist only to visit that pain on others.

It is not a question of finding an answer to the night of truth, but of sitting up with one another through the night... of dividing the abyss in half, in a companionship that is its own meaning.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Eagles live in the darkness, And the sons of the Alps Cross over the abyss without fear On lightly-built bridges. *** Growing weak on the separate mountains — Then give us calm waters; Give us wings, and loyal minds To cross over and return.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

Alas, I have begun my loneliest walk. But whoever is of my kind, cannot escape such an hour, the hour which says to him, 'Only now are you going your way to greatness. Peak and abyss, they are now joined together, for all things are baptized in a well of eternity, and lie beyond good and evil.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Always look on the bright side of the abyss

He has heart who knows fear, but vanquishes it; who sees the abyss, but with pride. He who sees the abyss, but with eagle's eyes,- he who with eagle's talons grasps the abyss: he has courage.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you?

One puts to one's lips what drives one faster into the abyss".

For that I must descend into the depths, as you do in the evening when you go below the sea and bring light also to the underworld, you superabundant star!

When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you.

Kada dugo gledaš u bezdan tada bezdan krene gledati u tebe

Und wenn du lange genug in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.

Who art thou then, O my soul! (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face. O heaven above me, said he sighing, and sat upright, thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul? When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things—when wilt thou drink this strange soul— —When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?