143 Quotes About Abyss

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

To him the magic of their mysteries;To him the book of Night was opened wide,And voices from the deep abyss revealedA marvel and a secret.—Be it so.

There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

It was easy to gain strength from chaos because it had about it the abyss--always so tantalizing--as the heroin addicts knew. But the journey to the abyss was short-lived. The harder road was to draw strength and not power. To gain footing not in the wild uncertainty of immortality but the abiding knowledge of mortality.

We both must burn this midnight oil together. You’re just as new to me as I am you.” --Andrew

His eyes undress his ancient unrevealable emotions. …A suffocating pain is hidden in his eyes.His heart is locked in the depth of the eternal abyss. …His smile ripped my soul and hypnotized my brain,… Seduced in an indescribable agony of dreams.…I had dreams haphazardly about a phantasmagorical creature, unbelievably beautiful, …I felt his touch disintegrating my entire body, it was the apogee of an unborn world and the fallen of the existing one,(fragment from Bewitched, chapter Passion)

To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies into the sky, leaving the crowd staring in astonishment. Angels fly away in two directions. Half make a black storm of moving, twisting shapes. The other half forms a white-as-snow moving cloud. The ranks are divided.