Abysmal Quotes

#1. The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

Wendy Beckett

#2. A major consequence of being psychologically asleep is the psychological and spiritual blindness which results from it. This results in action not from conscious awareness and true intelligence but from self-righteousness, which leads individuals and society as a whole into an abysmal pit.

Belsebuub

#3. The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

Claudio Magris

#4. Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

Robert Solow

#5. Drawing her closer he tucked his chin and lifted hers to meet his abysmal onyx eyes.

Jennifer Silverwood

#6. The CD image remains heart-sinkingly abysmal compared to the majesty of the LP sleeve. These things count.

Morrissey

#7. Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Fulton J. Sheen

#8. Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. This is so TYPICAL / APOCALYPTICAL
Hanging on abysmal release / Jesus
I don't need this / Don't wanna be this
Icon in the Making / My hands are f**king shaking

Slipknot

#10. The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.

Hartley Coleridge

#11. The village was run-down, stank of butcher blood, and was filled with ravenous creatures that would rip your throat out for a snack. All of that I could deal with. The thing that made it truly abysmal was that it was in New Jersey.

J.C. Nelson

#12. In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights resembled an oval patch of night sky flung down into the hopeless and abysmal night of the wilderness.

Joseph Conrad

#13. The run is already currently occurring, but in slow-motion. Large investors are letting CDs mature, but not renewing them due to the abysmal returns. Most CDs currently pay less than 1%.

Kelly Mitchell

#14. True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

Anthony De Mello

#15. Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

Carl Jung

#16. Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.

Brendan I. Koerner

#17. My life has consisted of challenging authority, which I was taught as a young girl. Life is only noise between two abysmal silences. Silence before birth, silence after death.

Isabel Allende

#18. I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. I just want to ask one of these singers, have you ever watched a single one of the many thousands of abysmal covers of your own song that are on YouTube? Because those are dreams. Dreams are not always beautiful things.

Anonymous

#20. I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo.

Clarice Lispector

#21. Love was real. Painfully real. He loved Julianne. Wholly, completely and irrevocably. And in exchange, he was getting exactly what he deserved. An abysmal whipping at the hands of the ultimate sadist, Life.

Jillian Verne

#22. The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Francis Thompson

#23. I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

James Agee

#24. It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

Chad Harbach

#25. Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

Jay Carney

#26. Hope knows no fear.
Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.
Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

Sri Chinmoy

#27. I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful.

Ken Wahl

#28. I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.

Ralph Ellison

#29. Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

Alan Moore

#30. I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.

Lillian Russell

#31. There is but one who qualifies as Savior. He alone has the ability to solve our most abysmal dilemma. He alone has the power of life and death.

R.C. Sproul

#32. The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

Tommy Armour

#33. Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again ... I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O'Neill were laughing.

Woody Allen

#34. We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.

Jay Nixon

#35. The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

Mariano Rajoy

#36. Because you're going to help me train a seven-year-old Witch who's got the raw power right now to turn us both into dust and yet" - he dropped the shoe onto the chair - "is abysmal at basic Craft.

Anne Bishop

#37. Could a benevolent designer, a craftsman who is mindful of harmony and joy, pleased by plenty and safety, tolerate such an abysmal existence for its most precious expressions of creation?

John Zande

#38. A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

Michelle Malkin

#39. The affair, in short, had been of the kind that most of the young men of his age had been through and emerged from with calm consciences and an undisturbed belief in the abysmal distinction between the women one loved and respected and those one enjoyed - and pitied.

Edith Wharton

#40. Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Ingrid Newkirk

#41. that of the mind is in abysmal stillness;

Lao-Tzu

#42. I have outlived the stillborn. I have outlasted my usefulness. I have become an abysmal ocean sponge, ten millennia old, and just as wise.

Logan Ryan Smith

#43. Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and she said, "Not quite up to standard." Uh huh. I could tell from missus' face, there's bad, there's worse, and after that comes abysmal.

Sue Monk Kidd

#44. I look forward to the promising upside of the long-term that lingers ahead for me after such abysmal days. Things always just seem to balance out in the long run. In fact, I'm almost there. The zero line is within inches of my trembling outstretched grasp.

David B. Lentz

#45. Try to imagine this formless, liquid abyss of many waters and surfaces. With and within this awesome, abysmal substance, God Mother creates universes. We are made from this stuff, literally! And we literally live, move, and have our being in this fathomless, multi-dimensional matrix.

Stefan Emunds

#46. Perhaps to the north? I hear Scotland is lovely this time of year." "Are you barmy? Scotland is wholly abysmal this time of year.

Gail Carriger

#47. The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

Carlos Fuentes

#48. The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

David Geffen

#49. Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

David Talbot

#50. Statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

Andrew Bernstein

#51. Life is abysmal hilarious if you have the eyes to see.

Stefan Emunds

#52. Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not.

Rabindranath Tagore

#53. Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

Monica Crowley

#54. The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#55. The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

Beau Willimon