Quotes tagged ‘Abyss’

“Time is an abyss...profound as a thousand nights...Centuries come and go...To be unable to grow old is terrible...Death is not the worst...Can you imagine enduring centuries, experiencing each day the same futilities?”

— Werner Herzog, Count Dracula, Klaus Kinski, imdb.com

“Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“I could not help feeling that they were evil things—mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com

“Just remember if you look in the face of evil, evil's gonna look right back at you.”

— Tim Minear, Sister Jude, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

“Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day. Sometimes you do everything right, everything exactly right, and still you feel like you failed. Did it need to end that way? Could something have been done to prevent the tragedy in the first place? Eighty-nin…”

— Edward Allen Bernero, Aaron Hotchner, Thomas Gibson, imdb.com

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, w…”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

“At the bottom of the abyss lies another ash-grey, stone-cold, dark-blue edge over another abyss.”

— Efterklang, Karsten Fundal, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, open.spotify.com

“Take any form, haunt me, drive me crazy but never leave me in this abyss where I can not find you.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“You thought you knew that abyss? It is another thing to experience it. Everything will happen to you. Think of all the frightful and devilish things that men have inflicted on their brothers. That should happen to you in your heart. Suffer it yourself through your own hand, and know that it is your…”

— Carl Jung, amazon.com