A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.
Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.
She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.
All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.