The Abyss Quotes

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea.

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall.

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.

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?

All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!

In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time.

We both must burn this midnight oil together. You’re just as new to me as I am you.” --Andrew

A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe.

What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!

Passion drove her deeper, into the abyss beneath his skin where she mapped his soul to the dance of his heartbeat...

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart.

To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.

Love fills the infinite.

This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.

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

for we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to.

To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.

There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...

Most of the time, we try to tell ourselves "I'm confident" or "I'm doing well." But then, in a moment alone at home, you feel how close you are to some kind of abyss.

I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

And so, she turned her back on the abyss for another day.

If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.

Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.

Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You

Send a coin into the abyss and wish for a blissful kiss