abyss

quote: I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

quote: Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

quote: O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

quote: Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will
march straight ahead without looking back.

quote: If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.

quote: Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

quote: 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.

quote: Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 It is God Himself, personally present and redeemingly active, who comes to meet men in this Man of Nazareth. Jesus is more than a religious genius, such as George Fox, and more than a holy man, such as the lovable Lana in Kipling's Kim. He himself knows that he is more. The Gospel story is a tree rooted in the familiar soil of time and sense; but its roots go down into the Abyss and its branches fill the Heavens; given to us in terms of a country in the Eastern

quote: Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

quote: [The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

quote: Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

quote: Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather on the belief that we ~shall~ land.

quote: Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

quote: Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

quote: It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

quote: Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

quote: The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

quote: ...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

quote: When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.

quote: Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

quote: I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

quote: Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

quote: I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

quote: We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

quote: If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

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