Abyss Quotes

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

Nikos Kazantzakis

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And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

Lea Thompson

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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Gustave Flaubert

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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

Gavin Newsom

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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

Ingrid Betancourt

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Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.

Hugh Miller

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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

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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

H. P. Lovecraft

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My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

John Cameron Mitchell

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We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

Helmut Kohl

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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

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The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

Andrei A. Gromyko

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

Graham Hawkes

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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.

Edward Grey

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I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

John Oates

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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

Yusef Komunyakaa

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The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

Stephen Hadley

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We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

David R. Brower

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The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

Tammy Bruce

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I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Richard Wagner

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In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

Paul Johnson

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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

Olivier Messiaen

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