Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss.
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!
He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!
I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below.
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master!
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?