143 Quotes About Abyss

It’s easy to be led to the abyss.

Sometimes, when I was sitting in the Crimson Cabaret on a rainy night, I thought of myself as occupying a waiting room for the abyss (which of course was exactly what I was doing) and between sips from my glass of wine or cup of coffee I smiled sadly and touched the front pocket of my coat where I kept my imaginary ticket to oblivion.

This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurkThe lazar-house my mind, wherein do workThe horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly songSickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong.

We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing down too hard. Hit your heel into it and you make a hole in which you will disappear. True philosophy has never consisted in probing all problems, but often on the contrary eluding them. We are skirting an abyss: beware of vertigo.

Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become boundless [....] In fathoming this abyss no bottom has been found. We are now to examine what discoveries Sir Isaac Newton has made in it.

I myself stand on one side and the rest of the world on the other. There is an abyss between, that no power can cross, a strange barrier more insuperable than a mountain of fire. Husband and wife know nothing of one another. However ardent their passion, however intimate their union, they are never one; they are scarcely more to one another than strangers.

When I came to see youIt hurt me how thin you had becomeIn the months of addiction & disease& although your particular abyssWas a man & not a drugThe degradation was the sameThe same wasting of the fleshThe same tapped-out well emptiedOf the least leaf of emotionThe same frozen rage

Atraído por el abismo, vivo la melancólica certeza de que no voy a caer nunca.

I was ready to do something a little lighter in tone than 'Six Feet, ... Five years of staring into the abyss was enough.