Abyss Quotes

We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.