Top 100 Quotes About The Chasm
#1. I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.
Philip Gulley
#2. I could see Grant thinking about this, trying to grasp the chasm between the finality in my voice and his vision of our future, and bridging the divide with a combination of hope and lies.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#3. Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
Jesse Kellerman
#4. I am standing on one side of the chasm, holding out my hand to you, yet you refuse to reach for me.
Evangeline Anderson
#5. The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Frodo, black against the glare, tense; erect, but still as if he had been turned to stone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of our own emptiness.
Stephen Batchelor
#7. It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.
S.A. Tawks
#8. It's not about Al," I snap. "It's about everyone watching! Everyone who now sees
hurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyone
calls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It's ... I
can't ...
Veronica Roth
#9. Cowboys, aliens, hit men, and now a canyon full of survivalists. Young stared down into the chasm and the flurry of movement their approach was causing and shook his head in disbelief. How was this his life?
J. Fally
#10. Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life.
Jimmy Carter
#11. I would be moving in the cold of the settling evening, the few stars in the chasm overhead, the only way I could still myself at all: move.
Peter Heller
#12. Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.
Theodore Roosevelt
#13. Even if you bar my way,
even if you stare me in the face,
I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair.
Wislawa Szymborska
#14. Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
#15. Dude," he said instead, "I'm flattered as hell." And then he kicked my foot, lightly, twice. He was smiling.
He couldn't see the chasm that had opened behind my ribs.
Kenneth Logan
#16. For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.
Veronica Roth
#18. Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like a mad thing, held aloft the ring, a finger still thrust within its circle.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between contradictions ... for the god wants to know himself in you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#20. Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution
Ian McEwan
#21. The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#22. To some of us the humiliation of failure seems to open a wide gulf between God and us. We imagine that God turns away from us in disgust. What I discovered was that failure could be a bridge across the chasm that pride had created.
James Martin
#23. And then he hesitated. He turned his head and looked across the chasm at Ileni. Their eyes met, and his weren't deadly and focused at all. They were ... afraid.
This thing between us wouldn't survive my watching you murder someone.
Leah Cypess
#24. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.
Christopher Tolkien
#25. Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.
Caitlin Thomas
#26. Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#27. But when I lean over the chasm of myself -
it seems
my God is dark
and like a web: a hundred roots
silently drinking.
This is the ferment I grow out of.
More I don't know, because my branches
rest in deep silence, stirred only by the wind.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#28. Magic is all about choice. Choosing to use it, choosing to surrender it, choosing to take it from the chasm --choosing to let it break in defense of a kingdom.
Sara Raasch
#29. Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#30. Deep is the chasm between the centuries, but by bridging it a man may return home.
David C. Douglas
#31. And I'll gaze across the chasm to the other side of the island, where I can still sometimes catch sight of a curly-haired urchin running joyously through the tall purple grass, her faithful dog at her heels.
Michelle Cooper
#32. A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.
Alison Goodman
#33. Sometimes, like when she got sick, the edge comes to me. Sometimes that happens for no reason. The chasm widens inexplicably even as I run from it-run for my life-until the ground beneath me evaporates and I am lost again despite my best, but futile efforts.
Ka Hancock
#34. We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
#35. Further communication with her husband seemed hopeless. Between them yawned the chasm that divides those who have consumed champagne before breakfast from those who have not.
Helen Cresswell
#36. Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.
Irene Fantopoulos
#37. The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
Natasha Leggero
#38. Between your body and my desire for it
Stretches the chasm of you being conscious.
If only I could love and possess you Without you existing or being there!
Fernando Pessoa
#39. It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.
Maggie Stiefvater
#40. The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us..
Nathanial Hawthorne
#41. She breathes as if he had held her hand and helped her jump over the chasm of that scar.
David Grossman
#42. Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.
Neil LaBute
#43. The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.
Rick Riordan
#44. That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#45. A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#46. The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago ... the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church.
Reza Aslan
#47. My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher Descartes ripped body loose from mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house.
Walker Percy
#48. There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B.W. Powe
#49. There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end point for this wild trash: the greatest future, the biggest surface, the deepest chasm, the broadest desert and the largest burial ground on the planet. It's the ocean.
Edward Humes
#51. Why did you even bring a whip?"
"Because Tristan wouldn't let me bring the Thor hammer. Besides, you never know when you'll need a whip. What if we need to climb something really tall or swing across a deep chasm?
Chelsea Fine
#52. Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.
Ren Ng
#53. Personal well-being serves solely to excavate within your soul a chasm which waits to be filled by a landslide of dread, an empty mold whose peculiar dimensions will one day manufacture the shape of your unique terror
Thomas Ligotti
#54. Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
Samuel Johnson
#55. If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.
Kevin Cashman
#56. At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
Catherine Hicks
#57. Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.
Chris Bohjalian
#58. There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.
Charles Brent
#59. The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years.
Noam Chomsky
#60. There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.
David Travis
#61. The society killed Kendra.
...
Don't mention it to Verl. He might dive into a chasm.
Brandon Mull
#62. Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm.
Johann Ludwig Tieck
#63. Death is not something you get over. It's the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after.
Lily Graham
#64. In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.
Richard Condon
#65. DUMB AUTUMN SMELLS. The
marguerite, unbroken, passed
between home and chasm through
your memory.
A strange lostness was
palpably present, almost
you would have lived.
Paul Celan
#66. They got that way, Garraty had noticed. Complete withdrawal from everything and everyone around them. Everything but the road. They stared at the road with a kind of horrid fascination, as if it were a tightrope thay had to walk over an endless, bottomless chasm.
Richard Bachman
#67. A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
Joseph Campbell
#68. Within the eye, mysteries of the soul burn deeply beneath the fiery chasms of love and patiently wait for an awakening ...
Virginia Alison
#69. What's lovely about what I do for a living is the vast chasm of variety that constantly just comes at you from all angles.
Robert Sheehan
#70. An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What's a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.
Diane Samuels
#71. Having hope was like dangling himself over a chasm and putting the rope in her hands. She could annihilate him if she wanted to.
Laini Taylor
#72. What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else ...
Barack Obama
#73. There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.
Isaac Marion
#74. Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
Karl Liebknecht
#75. The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm, and
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#76. The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.
Jean Baudrillard
#77. So black is my heart for it is buried in the fiery chasm of untameable passion. It beats in the dark recesses of unquenchable thirst for love and desire from which there is no return...
Virginia Alison
#78. The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#79. Holly Sykes, says Publicity Girl, falling down the sar-chasm.
David Mitchell
#80. It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
Georgette Heyer
#81. The world just changed, Gaz," Kaladin said, leaning in close. "I died down at that chasm. Now you've got my vengeful spirit to deal with.
Brandon Sanderson
#82. Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#83. I welcomed the blackness to take me, swallow my soul, for I was unworthy of His Gifts. He knew all along and punished us for our arrogance. I deserved Hell. I deserved to be dragged into a chasm of eternal pain.
Ashlan Thomas
#84. I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
Nancy Gibbs
#86. DEATH IS A PROFOUND LESSON IN TRUTH: We grow to understand more about it from childhood until the day we must cross the mystic chasm and abandon the land of the living.
Loren Mayshark
#87. There is no separation. There is no chasm between you and the heavens. There is no divider, no veil between you and God's love.
Max Lucado
#88. Energy in expression is silent. The knowing of what no words can say. A chasm of gravity could ever hold,; Weightless, it is part of all living things
S.L. Northey
#89. Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.
Luke Timothy Johnson
#90. That difference, that indefinable difference between talent and genius. It is as fine as hair, invisible to the eye and even, most of the time, to the ear. But in her face when she looks at her brother, I see that it may as well be a huge uncrossable chasm.
Anna Smaill
#91. The more clearly we see the infinite chasm between God's glory and our sinful falling short thereof, the greater will be our appreciation of His grace and love in bridging that gulf to redeem us.
Dave Hunt
#92. Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love.
Dean Koontz
#93. I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.
Martin O'Malley
#95. most dangerous thing in the world is to try and leap a chasm in two jumps,'" Paul quoted with dignified seriousness.
Glenn Michaels
#96. My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.
John Phillips
#97. The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.
Ryan Lilly
#98. This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.
Jim Jeffords
#99. Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.
Timothy B. Tyson
#100. We were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.
Amy Tan
