“Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
Joseph Campbell
“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
“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
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
“Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss”
Lord Byron
“Cities are the abyss of the human species”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
