Abyss Quotes
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There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!
Lao Tzu
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The truth is always an abyss.
Franz Kafka -
Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
William James -
Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.
Allen Tate -
Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
John Milton -
Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
George Bernard Shaw
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The awful glimpse down into the abyss of an existence without him had so staggered and appalled her heart that she felt she could never be quite the same again. However, it had opened her eyes to the fact that right down in the depths of her own heart she really had but one passionate desire, not for the things which the Shepherd had promised, but for himself. All she wanted was to be allowed to follow him forever.
Hannah Hurnard -
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac -
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
Blaise Pascal -
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
Franz Kafka -
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.
Gemma Galgani -
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
Franz Kafka -
But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.
Edward Bunker -
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!
Apostolos Doxiadis -
He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him. He didn’t want to turn at the sound of her voice. If he simply stared into the hydrangea for long enough…then he would be a coward. He turned to face the woman who could bring him to his knees.
Courtney Milan -
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Sebastian Horsley -
Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.
Catherine Fisher
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.
Ernest Hello -
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.
Soren Kierkegaard