(26 quotes found)
“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
“Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss”
Lord Byron
“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.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Cities are the abyss of the human species”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.”
Ernest Hello
“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
Emily Bronte
“When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”
“Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you.”
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
Joseph Campbell
“They looked into the abyss and saw this whole thing falling apart and realized they needed to get something done over a serious issue. It was a rare moment of government at its best, and it's not clear how long it will last.”
Marshall Wittmann