Top 55 Fathomless Quotes
#1. Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.
Johannes Tauler
#2. To fill the fathomless caverns of my thirsty soul I must work entirely contrary to impulses of my own humanity, for it is in emptying myself at the very point where I am most empty that I fill myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#3. I felt it in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way.
Cheryl Strayed
#4. Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
#5. God's truth? How long do these intolerable moments last for God? A trillionth of second? The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth.
Anthony Doerr
#6. If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.
Ned Beauman
#7. I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.
H.P. Lovecraft
#8. Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.
Rabindranath Tagore
#9. For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.
Anthony Hopkins
#10. Men have firm beautiful bodies with cut muscles. But the curves and gentleness of a woman's body is beyond a words measure; with their dazzling rawness it's impossible to perfect but I crave the need to depict such a fathomless beauty.
S.K. Logsdon
#11. Suddenly her head swiveled around like something out of the Exorcist, and she once again pinned Drew with her fathomless gaze. Storm's blowin' in, Dr. Deveraux.
J.K. Hogan
#12. Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#13. As the autumn deepens, the fathomless lakes of their eyes assume an ever more sorrowful hue. The leaves turn color, the grasses wither; the beasts sense the advance of a long, hungry season. And bowing to their vision, I too know a sadness.
Haruki Murakami
#14. Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
Frederick Buechner
#15. We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
Adam Sedgwick
#16. ...the world runs on the fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery.
Karen Joy Fowler
#17. The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look.
Karen Joy Fowler
#18. Mind is a dark fathomless ocean, and every time I sink into it, this world fades, replaced by one far more terrible and beautiful in which I will happily drown. - New York Times Book Review
Neil Gaiman
#19. I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
Walt Whitman
#20. The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star , and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea : I decided to kill myself that night .
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#21. He laughed. I mean a pension of fathomless peace - a reward for many years of deep meditation. I never crave money now. My few material needs are amply provided for.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#22. The people faded away, the arches, the vaulted roof vanished. I raised my seared eyes to the fathomless glare; and I saw the black stars hanging in the heavens: and the wet winds from the Lake of Hali chilled my face.
("In The Court of the Dragon")
Robert W. Chambers
#23. I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time.
H.P. Lovecraft
#24. Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
Rudyard Kipling
#25. Rachel felt the grief grow so wide and deep it felt like a dark fathomless pool she'd never emerge from. Because there was nothing left to do now, nothing except endure it.
Ron Rash
#26. Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well ... they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.
Jasper Fforde
#27. Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.
Walt Whitman
#28. what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no mire fixed than the wind
Sarah Perry
#29. The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.
R.S. Thomas
#30. Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,
the throne
Of the Invisible! even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
George Gordon Byron
#31. Her eyes were dark, corrupt, fathomless and all of that other evil crap. Mostly all of that other evil crap.
Fred Barnett
#32. Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
Marcus Aurelius
#33. Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.
Philip Pullman
#34. Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy ... And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220
Rainbow Rowell
#35. Jesus' fathomless love changes how you and I will live in our moments, how we'll love in our neighborhoods, and what we'll be known for in eternity.
Jennifer Dukes Lee
#36. Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless yearning. My career aspirations were always goading me. But partially, I think I tried to let those dreams replace or become the other yearning, to have that other form of value.
Cris Mazza
#37. The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.
Anthony Doerr
#38. I am just like you,
Destined to play my part.
And leave,
In the nature of my departure at least,
Some kind of sweet message behind
In the fathomless pattern I make.
Scott Hastie
#39. Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky
Carl Jung
#40. She had fallen into the fathomless gray that warped a mind and made a mother keep holding on long after hope was gone.
Kristin Hannah
#41. The human spirit lies open to God alone, for it is a fathomless depth.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#42. God had given him a gift when he opened his eyes to see her smile and the lovely glimmer of fathomless green pools. Her gaze reminded him of the rolling hills of his beloved Scotland. With Eva, he was home. With her in his arms, he could achieve anything - fear nothing. If only...
Amy Jarecki
#43. Quaint, the idea that love is
Unquestionable undefeatable
Endless fathomless
Strong as time and
Tenacious as space but
If love is never to be tested
Or challenged then it is worth
Nothing.
Gabrielle Prendergast
#44. There was an anchor, tied around both of his ankles, and it was taking him deep, into black fathomless depths, drowning him slowly but surely.
I didn't tell him that he was dragging me down with him.
R.K. Lilley
#45. Hers is the face I wear, treading the riptide, fathomless oceans where good girls drown.
Ellen Hopkins
#46. He must know he held a devastating piece of information in his hands. Somewhere behind those fathomless black eyes, his sharp mind was clicking away rapidly, trying to decide how best to use what he knew.
Cassandra Clare
#47. Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.
Dov Davidoff
#48. She had blue eyes, but his were BLUE. Not just one shade of blue, either, but a swirl of shades that reminded her of the stretch of ocean between Bella Vita Isle and Nassau where the turquoise waters fell into a deep, fathomless blue.
Emily March
#49. We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
Josh Billings
#50. What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
Thomas Carlyle
#52. 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
#53. Lord
I thank you for creating the world beautiful and various
and for allowing me in Your fathomless goodness to visit places which were not the sites of my daily torments
Zbigniew Herbert
#54. Further, deeper still, those whose true names are for ever hidden from the world picked up the pattern of vibrations in the ether, and something akin to joy stirred in their fathomless minds. Perhaps soon they would be called upon to feed.
Marc Gascoigne
#55. It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
Jackson Pearce
