The human soul is an abyss

The truth is always an abyss.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

Love guards the heart from the abyss.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!

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

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

When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

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

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

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

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.

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

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

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

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

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

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

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?

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