Top 30 If You Look Into The Abyss Quotes
#1. Don't fight with monsters, for you can become one. If you look into the abyss for long enough, the abyss looks into you.
Fredrik Backman
#2. Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
Virginia Woolf
#3. You look into the abyss and the abyss looks back," I said, shrugging. "Then you punch the abyss in the face.
Larry Correia
#4. No. All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in. And I have looked in. . . .
Leo Tolstoy
#5. 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.
Gregory The Great
#6. Quatermain (while climbing down): We are above an abyss such as satan's own, Miss Murray.Pray not to look down.
Mina: And you, Sir, should not look up.You have me at a disadvantage and I trust you'll not misuse our situation.
Alan Moore
#7. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
Michael Connelly
#8. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Ahh . . . an educated man. Well, you're not as stupid as you look. Don't quote Nietzsche at me, kid. That German crackpot wouldn't know a real monster if it bit him on the ass.
Larry Correia
#9. Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
Georg Buchner
#10. He who fears being watched from the abyss
will be unable to look into it himself.
The truth can only be obtained by pressing forward.
Sadamu Yamashita
#11. The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Cesare Pavese
#12. The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I'm falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.
Markus Zusak
#13. I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite ... When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
Jonathan Edwards
#14. Nietzsche said: When you look into the abyss, it also looks into you.
Patricia Cornwell
#16. Look into the abyss long enough, eventually it looks back into you,
David Simpson
#17. If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
Cory Doctorow
#18. And when the abyss looks into you - and it will - may you look back unflinching.
Neal Shusterman
#20. Dorian sat quietly for a moment and then said, "We all straddle the abyss, Penny. If you never look down, how will you ever know who you are or what you will become? Your dad could never be ashamed of you, because falling in that abyss is part of the process of growing up.
Karen Gammons
#21. Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#22. I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do.
Kenneth Koch
#23. I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
Dave Mustaine
#24. I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.'
'I won't let you fall.
Nalini Singh
#25. One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert
#27. I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver's nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into the abyss.
Norman Mailer
#28. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster ... when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. the shadows may come and engulf your world, but if you look hard enough you'll always see that spark in the abyss leading you back to the light and the next adventure waiting to be had
B.B. Taylor
#30. When you look into the abyss, it's not supposed to wave back.
Terry Pratchett
