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They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank - to distract themselves from the abyss.
— Dominic Smith
He had seen inferno and tempest, and had not only looked into the abyss but the abyss had looked into him, and then made disparaging comments.
— Jonathan L. Howard
Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.
— Thomas Ligotti
One puts to one's lips what drives one faster into the abyss.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
No matter how far you go into the deep, you are always on the brink of another abyss.
— Hamid Ismailov
A leering succubus, vile temptress of the Abyss, stared back at him.
— R.A. Salvatore
... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
— Clive Barker
In excessive griefs, as in great tempests, the abyss is found between the tops of the loftiest waves
— Alexandre Dumas
All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in.
— Sarah J. Maas
I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
— Dave Mustaine
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
— Sebastian Horsley
Always look on the bright side of the abyss
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?
— Erich Maria Remarque
She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss.
— Sabrina Jeffries
It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.
— Richard Paul Evans
When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance
So memory can step around, across, upon it. — Emily Dickinson
We all come out of the same abyss; but each of us, a trial throw of the dice from the depths, strives toward his own goal.
— Hermann Hesse
She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
— Fannie Hurst
I deny that either singers or conductors can create or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.
— Giuseppe Verdi
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.
— Haruki Murakami
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.
— Anatoly Karpov
The human heart is certainly an abyss of misery and sin, but God lies in its depths.
— Jacques Philippe
So, so sorry. Really sorry. Master. Sir. Emperor of the world. God of the universe.
— Cherise Sinclair
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
The abyss doesn't stare back. It winks.
— Kresley Cole
There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Oswald Chambers
I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver's nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into the abyss.
— Norman Mailer
I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny ... again.
— Cassandra Giovanni
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
— John Calvin
I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has gazed into me. And neither of us liked what we saw.
— Brother Theodore
Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.
— Honore De Balzac
Hope knows no fear.Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.
Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. — Sri Chinmoy
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
— Clarice Lispector
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness
— Honore De Balzac
Man cannot sprout wings unless he has first reached the brink of the abyss!
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
— Graham Hawkes
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
— Seth Klarman
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
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
— Kate Morton
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
— George Orwell
I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.
— Roberto Bolano
The abyss above him shone with unflickering stars. One of the dots of light was Earth. He didn't know which one.
— James S.A. Corey
Seize the moments that are before you instead of planning for future moments that get lost in the abyss of time.
— Orly Wahba
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.
— Blaise Pascal
And what will bow your shoulders downwill be the vicious and worthless company
with whom you will fall into this abyss. — Dante Alighieri
Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm.
— Johann Ludwig Tieck
When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The soul without God for eternity is in an abyss.
— John Ortberg
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
— Meridel Le Sueur
Such things did not appear to horrify her. She did not feel the abyss opening beneath her feet at the thought of lies becoming truths
— George Orwell
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
— Angelus Silesius
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
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
— Eduardo Galeano
No matter what abyss was gapingBetween the worlds that we belonged,
Love was a realm of an escaping
Deprived of any right or wrong. — Tatyana K. Varenko
Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon.
— Cherise Sinclair
Sometimes love carries us into the abyss, taking with us to make matters worse
the people we love. — Paulo Coelho
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.
— Alberto Giacometti
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
— Richard Wagner
The immediate contingency overtook him, pulling him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
— Joseph Campbell
There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond
— Alexandre Dumas
We stepped out gaily on a carpet of flowers, little imagining the abyss beneath
— Louis Philippe De Segur
The universe is a philosophical abyss.
— Kedar Joshi
Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the world.
— Boris Pasternak
When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
— Aleister Crowley
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Absurdity is not an autonomous state; it does not exist in the world, but is instead exhaled from the abyss that divides us from a mute world.
— Robert Zaretsky
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?
— Mansur Al-Hallaj
The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
— H.P. Lovecraft
