Abyss Quotes

• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Deep Thought, Looks, Peace Justice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.279, Modern Library

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• At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Eleven Minutes: A Novel”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• ...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rose, Monsters, Swallowing

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

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Black, Fascination, Form

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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

  Life, Looks, Charm

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• We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

  Democritus

  Lying, Science, Reality

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• The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Life, Heart, Mind

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• If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Enough, Staring

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• In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.

  Paolo Giordano

  Silence, Together, Safe

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• I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

  Camille Claudel

  Dream, World, Strange

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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Teacher, Commitment

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• Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Lying, Labyrinth, Deceit

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• The truth is always an abyss.

  Franz Kafka

  Truth Is

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• 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.

  Hal Holbrook

  Character, Men, Looks

  "Fictional character: Lou Mannheim". "Wall Street", www.imdb.com. December 11, 1987.

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• Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Rope, Beast

  "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist".

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• Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Time, Years, Months

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• In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

  Kate Morton

  Lying, Heart, Dark

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

  Gangaji

  Patterns, Emptiness, Kind

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• This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Magic, Bed

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• In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Delicacy, Ends

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “The Essential Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals”, p.46, Chartwell Books

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• If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

  Franz Kafka

  Throwing, Involved, Ifs

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• Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

  Aleister Crowley

  Hallucinations, Lord, Esoteric Wisdom

  Aleister Crowley (1986). “Book of Lies”, Weiser Books

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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

  Individuality, World, Spirit

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