Abyss Quotes - Page 2

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

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

Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

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

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

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

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

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

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.

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.