And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.
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.
The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.
On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
The truth is always an abyss.