(26 quotes found)
“If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.”
“The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.”
Francois Rabelais
“The country was brought back from the edge of the abyss. He gave us freedom.”
Yevgeny Yasin
“When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t”
Elie Wiesel
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
“I would guess he'd say something like 'You're heading toward an abyss and you need to do something about it,'”
Michael Krepon
“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.”
“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back 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