143 Quotes About Abyss

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

Así pues: ello sea satis para decirte que tu vocación por el precipicio no es renunciante o censurable: sino reposada, sabia, honestísima: solemne incluso, ya que toda una vida es necesaria para la consumación de la gran caída; et también: rationalissima.

There was an abyss. And books contained magical incantations to raise what was hidden there, all the great mysteries.

Because there was an abyss. And books contained magical incantations to raise what was hidden there, all the great mysteries. For Luke, those mysteries mattered. Someday in the future, he might write books of his own. But here the only future was Back Half. Here, the future of existence was, 'What good would it do?

The abyss is black and eventually I know I will smile, laugh even knowing all I think I know, maniacally while I howl at anything I could see that would laugh, snarl and howl the way I do.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

Love fills the infinite.

the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time

But first whom shall we sendIn search of this new world, whom shall we findSufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feetThe dark unbottomed infinite abyssAnd through the palpable obscure find outHis uncouth way, or spread his aery flightUpborne with indefatigable wingsOver the vast abrupt, ere he arriveThe happy isle?