Abyss Quotes - page 2

A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss. (John Kennedy Toole)
Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Every concession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept. View quote
Václav Havel
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. View quote
Terence McKenna
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies. View quote
Ugo Cavallero
Everything, alas, is an abyss, - actions, desires, dreams, Words! View quote
Charles Baudelaire
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink no looking down, or looking back I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her. View quote
Charles Dickens
She felt the abyss of disenchantment. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. View quote
Antonio Porchia
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)
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss. View quote
Johann Georg Hamann
And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th' Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men. View quote
John Milton
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. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I'm falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me. View quote
Markus Zusak
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? View quote
Eugenio Montale
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. View quote
Catherine Fisher
Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. View quote
Ben Shapiro
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. View quote
Ernest Hello
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence. (Edward Forbes)
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. View quote
Hal Holbrook
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. View quote
Lea Thompson
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. View quote
Marguerite Young
We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success. View quote
John McCain