Abyss Quotes - Page 9

• We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.

  Brian Aldiss

  Coffee, White, Understanding

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• Los acontecimientos nunca son absolutos, su desenlace depende enteramente del individuo. La desgracia es un peldaño para un genio, una piscina para un cristiano, un tesoro para un hombre de partes y un abismo para un débil.

  Honore de Balzac

  Christian, Men, Events

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• Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ocean, Eye, Animal

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• Confesar tus pecados a Dios no es decirle [a Dios] nada que [Dios] no sepa ya. Sin embargo, hasta que no los confiesas, son el abismo que os separa. Cuando los confiesas, se convierten en el puente.

  Frederick Buechner

  Bridges, Sin, Knows

  Frederick Buechner (1973). "Wishful thinking: a theological ABC", Harper San Francisco

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• We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Past, Moments, Constant

  John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011). “Pulphead: Essays”, p.267, Macmillan

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• Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss is blue. An artist must go beyond the mercy of satin or water-from a gutty hue to that which is close to royal purple. All seasons and blossoms inbetween. Lavender. Theatrical and outrageous electric. Almost gray. True and false blue. Water and oil. The gas jet breathing in oblivion. The unstruck match. The blue of absence. The blue of deep presence. The insides of something perfect.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Lonely, Thinking, Artist

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• The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

  William James

  Memories, Fall, Mean

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.643, Courier Corporation

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• Por qué la vida es tan trágica; tan parecida a una pequeña franja de pavimento sobre un abismo. Miro hacia abajo; siento vértigo; me pregunto cómo voy a caminar hasta el final.

  Virginia Woolf

  Looks, Littles, Pavimento

  Virginia Woolf (2003). "Diario de un escritor", p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh Conciencia, a qué abismo de temores
  Y horrores me has conducido, del cual
  no encuentro salida, de profundo en más profundo sumido.

  John Milton

  Fear, Loss, Way

  John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.174

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• Más allá está todo abismo, la eternidad, cuyo fin ningún ojo puede alcanzar.

  John Milton

  Eye, Eternity, Ends

  John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

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• Es un hecho riguroso de la historia que ninguna nación que se precipitó al abismo volvió atrás. Nunca, en la larga historia del mundo. Ahora estamos al borde del abismo. ¿Podemos, por primera vez en la historia, dar marcha atrás? Depende de ti.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Long, Up To You, World

  "Honoria". Essay by Taylor Caldwell (1957), republished in "The New American", Volume 19, No. 20, October 6, 2003.

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• The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.

  Sam Keen

  Religious, Order, Parent

  Fuente: www.scottlondon.com

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• I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Prayer, Offering, Years

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• We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outstripped our instinct for survival and the road back to safety has already been washed away. In which case there's nothing much to be done. If there is something to be done, then one thing is for sure: those who created the problem will not be the ones who come up with a solution.

  Arundhati Roy

  Safety, Survival, Done

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were, forces God to grant our petition. It deepens the abyss of humility, above all it enkindles the flame of love in the heart; hence the Sacrament is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces

  Ángela de Foligno

  Oración, Corazón, Humildad

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• Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Children, Swings, Views

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• Si viera abiertas las puertas del infierno y estuviera al borde del abismo, no desesperaría; no perdería la esperanza de la misericordia, porque confiaría en ti, Dios mío.

  Gemma Galgani

  Trust, God, Hope

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• We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Carácter

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Si Gran Bretaña fracasara, el mundo entero se hundiría en el abismo de una nueva era oscura, más siniestra aún... por las luces de la ciencia pervertida.

  Winston Churchill

  Dark, Science, Light

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• I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I am Belial, for having seen the Rose upon thy breast, I have denied God. And I am Satan! I am Satan! I am cast out upon a burning crag! And the sea boils about the desolation thereof. And already the vultures gather, and feast upon my flesh.

  Aleister Crowley

  Air, Sea, Rose

  Aleister Crowley (2012). "Lo mejor del Equinoccio, Magia Enoquiana", p.141, Weiser Books

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• Érase una vez una prostituta llamada María. Un momento. "Érase una vez" es como empiezan los mejores cuentos infantiles, y "prostituta" es una palabra para adultos. ¿Cómo puedo empezar un libro con esta aparente contradicción? Pero como, en cada momento de nuestras vidas, todos tenemos un pie en un cuento de hadas y el otro en el abismo, quedémonos con ese comienzo.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Book, Feet

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• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Heart, Angel

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.

  Henry Miller

  Pain, Regret, Fall

  Henry Miller John Calder (1985). "A Henry Miller reader", Riverrun Pr

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• ......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

  Joseph Campbell

  Buddhist, Communication, Interesting

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Religious, Filled In, People

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