Two Abysses Quotes

#1. Two abysses, gentlemen of the jury, remember that Karamazov can contemplate two abysses, and both at the same time.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

Fernando Pessoa

#3. We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

Elie Wiesel

#4. A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.

Susan Vreeland

#5. As I lay in the late hours of night or perhaps the wee hours of morning, I felt content. I'd been right to keep faith and trust when I had no reason to. I didn't expect any grand gestures or magical solutions to things, but my hope was fueled.

J.M. Northup

#6. I began to see how deep the well of her loving was, and how much her happiness and confidence depended on drawing that love into the light, and sharing it. And love was beautiful in her. It was a clear sky she gave us with those eyes, and a summer morning with her smile.

Gregory David Roberts

#7. I am what you made me, Father.

Jamie Ford

#8. Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

John Lubbock

#9. Looking is an important part of Stanwyck's acting: many performers have beautiful eyes (for example, Henry Fonda), or use their eyes expressively (most remarkably, perhaps, Bette Davis), but few use them so attentively to observe and survey others and the world [as Stanwyck].

Andrew Klevan

#10. We have to have positive male role models.

Donald Miller

#11. Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

William Wilberforce