If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.
She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a "completely ready," there is never a really "right time. " As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one's nose, and jumps into the abyss. If this were not so, we would not have needed to create the words heroine, hero, or courage.
Poetry. . . the deepest abyss of infinity.
All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
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?
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister. . . by the lights of perverted science.
Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light!
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.
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.