Abyss Quotes - Page 13

• When sleep enters the body like smoke
  and man journeys into the abyss
  like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
  then all quarrel ceases,
  overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
  of its rider.

  Nelly Sachs

  Stars, Sleep, Journey

  Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.

  Philip Kitcher

  Vanity, Anxiety, Historical

  Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

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• Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Lying, Safety, May

  Sri Aurobindo (1999). “The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development”, p.183, Lotus Press

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• El amor protege el corazón del abismo.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Corazón

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• ¿No te parece increíble que la inteligencia pueda viajar dos mil millas a lo largo de esas delgadas líneas de cobre, muy abajo en el casi insondable Atlántico, nunca antes penetrado... excepto cuando algún barco se ha hundido con su desventurada compañía en el eterno silencio y oscuridad del abismo? ¿Acaso no parece un milagro que los pensamientos de los hombres vivos ardan sobre los fríos y verdes huesos de hombres y mujeres cuyos corazones, antaño tan cálidos como los nuestros, estallaron cuando los golfos eternos se cerraron y rugieron sobre ellos hace siglos?

  Edward Everett

  Travel, Ocean, Heart

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• Te enfrentas a abismos de tiempo que son, en cierto modo, insondables. Ves una pintura al carboncillo de un ciervo tropical que quedó inacabada y alguien más la terminó. Pero gracias a la datación por radiocarbono sabemos que el siguiente completó la pintura 5.000 años después. Te quedas alucinado con la noción del paso del tiempo. No tenemos ninguna relación con ese tipo de profundidad del tiempo.

  Werner Herzog

  Años, Citas, Radio

  "La cueva de los sueños olvidados (3D) - Entrevista a Werner Herzog". Entrevista con Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Ideas, Understanding

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

  François Rabelais

  Education, Youth, Study

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• Mientras me arrastraba fuera del abismo del combate y sobre la barandilla del Sea Runner, me di cuenta de que la compasión por el sufrimiento ajeno es una carga para quienes la tienen. Como bien dice el poema "Insensibilidad" de Wilfred Owen, los que más sienten por los demás son los que más sufren en la guerra.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Guerra, Compasión, Mar

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• With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all that to the knock-out image at the heart of the novel-Deepgate, a Gothic city built on a network of chains over a great abyss-and you have urban fantasy at its best.

  Hal Duncan

  Angel, Heart, Army

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• And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?

  Marcel Proust

  Años, Gente, Mundo

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4472, Delphi Classics

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• The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss.

  Steig Larsson

  Fall, Organization, Decision

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• Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

  Mason Cooley

  Poetry, Professors, Daring

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• I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.

  Lynda Carter

  Dust, People, Drunk

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• A medida que descansas en la quietud más profundamente, la conciencia se libera del control compulsivo de la mente, de las contracciones y de las identificaciones. La conciencia regresa naturalmente a su no-estado de potencial absoluto no-manifestado, el abismo silencioso más allá de todo conocimiento.

  Adyashanti

  Knowing, Mind, Return

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• The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.

  Walter Kasper

  War, Two, Europe

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Las cosas de Dios son de gran importancia; y el tiempo, y la experiencia, y los pensamientos cuidadosos, ponderosos y solemnes sólo pueden descubrirlas. Tu mente, oh hombre, si quieres guiar a un hombre a la salvación, debe extenderse tan alto como los cielos, y buscar y contemplar el abismo más oscuro, y las amplias extensiones de la eternidad; ¡debes estar en comunión con Dios!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Heaven, Mind

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• All world was one, one windy nothing,
  My world was christened in a stream of milk.

  Dylan Thomas

  World, Milk, Windy

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

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• Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
  Come once a day to suffocate the sight.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Sight, Space

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.72, Macmillan

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• 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

  Running, Depressing, Hurt

  Ben Shapiro (0101). “And We All Fall Down”, p.55, Creators Publishing

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• Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.

  Rob Brezsny

  Media, Imagination, Fearless

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• Considera en qué condición, tanto de cuerpo como de alma, debe encontrarse un hombre cuando le alcance la muerte; y considera la brevedad de la vida, el abismo sin límites del tiempo pasado y futuro, la debilidad de toda la materia.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Past, Soul

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.130, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Crosses

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• No tenemos por qué desconfiar de nuestro mundo, pues no está contra nosotros. Tiene terrores, son nuestros terrores; tiene abismos, esos abismos nos pertenecen; son peligros al alcance de la mano, debemos intentar amarlos.... Tal vez todos los dragones de nuestra vida sean princesas que sólo esperan vernos una vez hermosas y valientes. Quizás todo lo terrible es en su ser más profundo algo indefenso que quiere ayuda de nosotros.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Bella, Princesa, Dragones

  Rainer Maria Rilke"Miedo a lo inexplicable"

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• America's strength lies not in its one-ness, but in its diversity of beliefs and efforts. And it will take all our strength in the coming years to combat global warming alarmism and to keep America from falling into the totalitarian green abyss.

  Steven Milloy

  Lying, Fall, America

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