Top 100 Into The Abyss Quotes
#1. Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.
Olivia Sudjic
#3. If you come to me you will be leaping into the abyss.
Franz Kafka
#4. You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.
King Tuff
#6. When you look into the abyss, it's not supposed to wave back.
Terry Pratchett
#7. I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into the abyss in invisible strongboxes. I am free, anonymous.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#8. Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to be there on the other side of the cliff reaching out to you too.
Wendy Mills
#10. Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
Elon Musk
#11. A man might think he can stare into the abyss without falling in but sometimes the abyss stares back. Sometimes the abyss exerts a strange effect on your sense of balance.
Philip Kerr
#12. A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.
John Updike
#13. 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
#14. Given eternity in which to work, everyone would eventually stumble into the abyss, just as all matter would eventually be swallowed by black holes.
Roger Williams
#15. Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,
a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
Gustave Flaubert
#16. She had done it. O, amazing grace. The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it. No net. No way back. Amazing.
Richard Bachman
#17. 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
#18. It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
Clarice Lispector
#19. Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.
Richard Davidson
#20. The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance.
Umberto Eco
#21. Emotional labor is what you get paid to do, and one of the most difficult types of emotional labor is staring into the abyss of choice and picking a path. Your
Seth Godin
#22. Passion drove her deeper, into the abyss beneath his skin where she mapped his soul to the dance of his heartbeat...
Virginia Alison
#23. 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.
Alan W. Watts
#24. We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
H. P. Blavatsky
#25. Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee.
Edward Abbey
#26. The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
Regina Brett
#27. When I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in such a position.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#28. I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.
Ruta Sepetys
#29. He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.
Paulo Coelho
#30. I understood that faith could help people see beyond themselves, not into the abyss but into the street, into the mix, to offer what was best about themselves to others.
Piper Kerman
#31. She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss.
Sabrina Jeffries
#32. 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.
Alberto Giacometti
#33. Battle not with monsters
lest you become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. Send a coin into the abyss and wish for a blissful kiss
Sean F. Hogan
#35. Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? / Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du NOUVEAU! (rough translation : Into the abyss
Heaven or Hell, what difference does it make? / To the depths of the Unknown to find the NEW!)
Charles Baudelaire
#36. Banks gamed the system, fucked society, caused the crash of 1929, drove the world into the abyss and paved the way for the rise of fascism - Stalin, Hitler - and they got despicably, disgustingly rich in the process. Banks. Banks did all that.
J.R. Moehringer
#37. The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
Stephen King
#38. That, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster ... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
J. Lincoln Fenn
#39. Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
Franz Kafka
#40. But what can I do? I can - she leapt into the abyss - join a ladies' club. There! That's respectable! That's something I can do! I can be ladylike. Why, I can be more ladylike than anyone, as long as I can keep myself from saying the first thing that pops into my mind.
Annie Barrows
#41. The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.
E. M. Forster
#42. So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#43. Sometimes love carries us into the abyss, taking with us
to make matters worse
the people we love.
Paulo Coelho
#44. The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence ... is not in their interests.
Stephen Hadley
#45. The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
John Playfair
#46. This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you
John Green
#47. I had been up all night with my old friend Allen Ginsberg, the poet, and we had both slid into the abyss of whiskey madness and full-bore substance abuse. It was wonderful,
Hunter S. Thompson
#48. I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
Dave Mustaine
#49. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#50. Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.
Alan Moore
#51. When sleep enters the body like smoke
and man journeys into the abyss
like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
then all quarrel ceases,
overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
of its rider.
Nelly Sachs
#52. When you gaze into the abyss, Nietzsche wrote, the abyss also gazes into you.
Stephen King
#53. With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.
Helene D. Gayle
#54. Who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you.
Ramez Naam
#55. 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
#56. All people like to be praised as it boosts their self-esteem, keeps them motivated and happy but it also pushes them into the abyss of sham, which is propelled by hypocrisy and sycophancy.
Balroop Singh
#57. Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightening - a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carries your whole heart with it off into the abyss.
Gustave Flaubert
#58. There may be a day when you find yourself standing at the precipice, looking down into the abyss of hopelessness and waiting, pleading, begging for someone who has been in this place before to come alongside you and show you the way back to hope.
J. Loren Norris
#59. 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
#60. Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes
Dan Brown
#61. Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.
Robert Plant
#62. I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.
Benedict Joseph Labre
#63. Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
Heinrich Heine
#64. He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
George Orwell
#66. Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt.
Marguerite Duras
#70. We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.
Blaise Pascal
#71. I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.
Tammara Webber
#72. She walked to where he stood, where the fire met the water. He took her hand and they both looked out into the abyss of it. The fear that Marcus had felt inside the Castle was still there, but he knew it was like the fire, a wild thing that could still be controlled, contained.
Yaa Gyasi
#73. Look into the abyss long enough, eventually it looks back into you,
David Simpson
#74. Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
Bertolt Brecht
#75. Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.
Husam Wafaei
#76. Screaming into the abyss is different than having a direct conversation with someone. Like, you can't bore or disappoint or weird out the abyss? There's no pressure involved. No chance of rejection. No chance of looking like a fool.
Unknown
#77. Love makes you weak. Love has unseen bondages that take you into the abyss of failure at that crucial moment when victory and failure get balanced. Beware of love.
Anand Neelakantan
#78. Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
Ben Shapiro
#80. You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.
Erich Ludendorff
#81. When the houses of the great collapse
Many little people are slain.
Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty
Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging
wain
Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.
Bertolt Brecht
#82. I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.
Gen Urobuchi
#83. We as a human community need to develop a new competency. We need to move from a single-cell social organism to a multicellular social organism. While making this evolutionary leap is no easy task, staring into the abyss is a strong motivator.
David Gershon
#84. [Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
Winston Churchill
#85. Nietzsche said: When you look into the abyss, it also looks into you.
Patricia Cornwell
#86. He was a futurist. They were all futurists. Everyone here gazed into the abyss for a living. Do it long enough, and the abyss would gaze back into you. If the abyss did that for long enough, the people who paid you for your eyes would send you to Normal Head. The
Warren Ellis
#87. 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
#88. Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.
Carter Heyward
#89. The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.
Brion James
#90. 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
#91. If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
Seth Klarman
#92. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell
#93. Remember my friend, uncontrolled alcohol, uncontrolled casual sex and mindless indoctrination are not signs of progress, they are signs of drowning into the abyss of mental and physical degradation.
Abhijit Naskar
#94. Having reached the summit of his vengeance by the slow and tortuous route that he had followed, he had looked over the far side of the mountain and into the abyss of doubt.
Alexandre Dumas
#95. When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. The fear of dying is not just the terror of pain, the humiliation of the loss of faculties, the fall into the abyss . . . but the primeval fear that afterwards one might remember it. The
Christopher Priest
#97. She goes very still and I can count on one hand all the times we've been here before, standing at the precipice of almost and staring down into the abyss of what-if.
Kat Kruger
#98. He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. - Nietzsche
Robert Kirkman
#99. Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.
Eric Clapton
#100. I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has gazed into me. And neither of us liked what we saw.
Brother Theodore
