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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

The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower. Didn't — Jeff VanderMeer

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

Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee. — Edward Abbey

Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
Come once a day to suffocate the sight. — Allen Tate

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

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

In excessive griefs, as in great tempests, the abyss is found between the tops of the loftiest waves — Alexandre Dumas

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

Look into the abyss long enough, eventually it looks back into you, — David Simpson

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

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

It was the abyss of human illusion that was the real, the tideless deep. — Henry James

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

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

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

I believe that theology is facing the abyss.
I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem Alves, p. 189) — Mev Puleo

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

He uttered the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss ... — Henry James

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

Who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you. — Ramez Naam

You like to act as if you care about nothing and if you carry on like that then you're going to drown in the abyss you have imagined for yourself. — Alice Oseman

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

Trust is when we plummet into the depths of an abyss and reach out for each other's hands.
-Amaderan Poetry, various authors — Marie Lu

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

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

And what will bow your shoulders down
will 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 gaping
Between 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

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss. — Octavio Paz

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 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 ... — John Geddes

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

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. — Anais Nin

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

When you stand at the abyss, you fall to your knees and you fucking grab for any comfort, any little thing to keep it from swallowing you whole. — T.A. Webb

The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it. — Nisargadatta Maharaj

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. — Marie Lu

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

I am that quiet place, the centre of the maelstrom...The dangerous abyss, where few dare to tread... — Virginia Alison

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. — Elon Musk