Abyss famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
-- Aleister Crowley -
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
-- Angelus Silesius -
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
-- Clarice Lispector -
The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
-- Denis Johnson -
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
-- Diane de Poitiers -
We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
-- Franz Kafka -
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.
-- Frederick Buechner -
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
-- Georg Buchner -
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
-- George Orwell -
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
-- James Blish -
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
-- John Jeremiah Sullivan -
The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
-- John Playfair -
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?
-- Nicolas Caussin -
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
-- Octavio Paz -
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
-- Paul Tillich -
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
-- Richard Wagner -
Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.
-- Sally-Ann Roberts -
When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.
-- Terry Pratchett -
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
-- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
