Abyss Quotes

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Hate, Evil

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Long, Enough, Become

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

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

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Down, Lies

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Long, Him, Turn

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton

Important, Able, Moon

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!
Victor Hugo

Art, Soul, Earth

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac

Mother, Heart, Deep

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats

Courage, May, Battle

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. Lovecraft

Black, Process, Delving

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov

Two, Light, Sense

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Hal Holbrook

Character, Nothing, Him

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
Marguerite Young

Person, Understand, Leader

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert

Bottom, Charm, Attracts

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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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.
Tammy Bruce

Best, Children, Else

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
Olivier Messiaen

Heart, Human, Soul

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.
Eric Clapton

Past, Kids, Used

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
Eugenio Montale

God, Future, Ignorance

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
Logan P. Smith

Life, Mind, Down

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
David R. Brower

Lost, Close, Edge

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner

Full, Longing, Inferior

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.
Jenny Eclair

Respect, Quite, Admire

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
Andrew Cohen

Human, Self, Place

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.
Paula Cole

Happiness, Used, Darkness

I find that 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.
Paula Cole

Happiness, Find, Used

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

Laughter, Themselves, Toward

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

Lie, Before, Looking

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