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• Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

  Zhu Rongji

  Lying, March, Should

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• There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Heart, Lasts

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.351, Discovery House

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• Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

  Carter Heyward

  Faith, Land, Belief

  Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

  Franz Kafka

  Fighting, Swimming, Order

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• Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Soulmate, Mad

  Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)

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• The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Death, Rocks, Two

  Speak, Memory (1951) ch. 1

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• If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

  Marguerite Young

  Leadership, Insane, Hallucinations

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• If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Death, Future

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

  Ernest Hello

  Simple, Profound, Impossible

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• I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite . . . When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Views, Looks

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1834). “Works”, p.90

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• If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.

  Hermann Hesse

  Writing, Feet, Skirts

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• All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Mind, Vacancy

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• When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Knowledge, Rooms

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cities are the abyss of the human species.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Cities, Humans, Species

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.59, Basic Books

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• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspiring, Life Changing, Moon

  Thomas Merton (1970). “The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Motivational, Science, Open Minded

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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• Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

  Georg Buchner

  Men, Looks, Turns

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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

  Ocean Exploration, Gmos, Sparks

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.26

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• Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!

  Ed Harris

  Thinking, Cynical, Miserable

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• Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, History, Finding Yourself

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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

  Heart, Godly, Soul

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• A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

  Julien Green

  Stars, Children, Dark

  Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”

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• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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