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.
O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?
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.
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.
We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago. Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness
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.
Poetry. . . the deepest abyss of infinity.
The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit First Amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.
Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this― the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea― that Lúthien for a time should be.
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.
. . . throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss.