44 Abyss Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Friedrich Nietzsche

You Will Long Abyss Become Enough Monster Monsters Back Gaze See He Does Process Should Fights Whoever

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. Thomas Merton

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. Ben Shapiro

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

Me Black Abyss Delving Form Process Fascination Keenest

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov

Darkness Light Abyss Sense Our Tells Above Between Existence Rocks Crack Cradle Common Common Sense Us Brief Two

Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be. Meghan Markle

Life You Yourself Parents Feeling Abyss Own Living Draw Independent Introduce Find Casting Push Colour Identity Make Box Continue Happen Choice Muddled Your Who

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. David R. Brower

Abyss Edge Lost Close Being Irrevocably

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step. Regina Brett

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! Victor Hugo

Art Myself Soul Will Abyss Elsewhere Earth Thou Thou Art Shall Know Render Well Am Go Up Which Grave

The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure. Ben Okri

Life Love Time Failure World Abyss Everything Saw Worst Harshness Impartiality Absolute Bottom Wrong Reached Rock Learnt Human

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss. Edward Grey

That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation. Hans Jonas

Death Alone Nature Man Care Abyss Situation Nothing Other Cares Projecting Way Unprecedented One-Way Objective Only Facing True Does Contingency His Truly Meanings

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential. Helene D. Gayle

Future Political Opportunities Will Poverty Abyss Our Neighbors Future Generations Rise Give More More And More Prevent Potential Generations Instead Global Falling Fullest Strategic Initiatives Need

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger. Helmut Kohl

People Power Abyss Danger Inside More More Power Greater Us Humans

You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss. Ingrid Betancourt

You Yourself Spirituality Abyss Tremendous Falling Stop Need

As my father went through a really, really long and dark period of his health declining and falling deeper into the abyss, I knew I was never going to let my family and my children experience this without any long-term care. Jim Nantz

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss. John Cameron Mitchell

Abyss Playwright Favorite Laughing He Beckett Always Samuel

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