The Abyss Quotes

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

The human soul is an abyss

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

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.

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.