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The truth is always an abyss. One must - as in a swimming pool - dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again - laughing and fighting for breath - to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.
This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk
The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work
The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song
Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong.
In the abyss you make your own light.
When you stand at the abyss, you fall to your knees and you fucking grab for any comfort, any little thing to keep it from swallowing you whole.
Far over the misty mountains grim To dungeons deep and caverns dim
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
Out of dark waters, this.
Once upon a time, there was only darkness. And there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it.
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
I was at the bottom of the sea, the pressure dense, crushing, inexorable. Dead silence strained against my eardrums. The darkness was without reprieve. No mental adjustment could make it less absolute. It was impenetrable - black painted over black painted over black.
One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.
A sea made of tears from every lover who never loved.
Battle not with monsters
lest you become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you
There is vast sea of all kind of creatures.
Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee.
To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer -
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light!
That on the other side of the world lay not an abyss
No matter how far you go into the deep, you are always on the brink of another abyss.
Books - they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.
The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.
Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
Dragons. A sky full of dragons.
Depths of Friendship
... under fathoms deep
of dark and bitter cold
an eerie oscillation
reverberated brash and bold ...
The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.
CALM is the bottom of my sea: who would guess that it hides droll monsters!
Unmoved is my depth: but it sparkles with swimming enigmas and laughters.
What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
We shall dive down through black abysses ... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.
O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.
Please tread carefully and keep away from the shadows; you are about to enter the abyss.
Each of us have monsters that live in our depths. Like all mythological sea monsters, they are too big and too powerful to be caged. The mysteries we attempt to cage are the ones most likely to eat us. We
When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge
one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t
When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.
The things we try our hardest not to lose, we really just put deep abysses in the spaces between them.
It was the abyss of human illusion that was the real, the tideless deep.
In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of "the abyss of birth." An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not fall but from which, instead, we emerge, to our universal chagrin.
If you choose to dwell within the abyss, expect only darkness to surround you.
I am that quiet place, the centre of the maelstrom...The dangerous abyss, where few dare to tread...
We all come out of the same abyss; but each of us, a trial throw of the dice from the depths, strives toward his own goal.
I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed,
Floating high on the waters of catastrophe
Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
Given eternity in which to work, everyone would eventually stumble into the abyss, just as all matter would eventually be swallowed by black holes.
The sea? What's that?
The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.
We have reached the open sea, with some charts; and the firmament.
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
The inscrutable outpourings bend and intermix, each one a tributary unto the others, until the whole expands ineluctably into a spiraling morass that drowns the mouths from which it has come and subsumes the space almost entirely in black Finn (p112).
for we all have
our own
twilights
and mists
and abysses
to return to.
In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.
Darkness, terrible cold darkness, the salty depths of the deepest oceans where no light warmed the rocks and the weight of the black water would crush a man like a grape.
Look into the abyss long enough, eventually it looks back into you,
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish ...
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!
The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance
Beyond all things is the sea
the shadows may come and engulf your world, but if you look hard enough you'll always see that spark in the abyss leading you back to the light and the next adventure waiting to be had
The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart ...
The other dark places,' Evan whispered. Visions of tunnels of earth and stone, caves and streams entered his head. It was far beneath them. He knew it was real and it was down there, waiting.
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
Come once a day to suffocate the sight.
Don't fight with monsters, for you can become one. If you look into the abyss for long enough, the abyss looks into you.
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
sea is embedded in drop and abundance is embedded in hope.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats.
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.
Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls
The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep
Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
A man might think he can stare into the abyss without falling in but sometimes the abyss stares back. Sometimes the abyss exerts a strange effect on your sense of balance.
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all.
Tell me once more about the eternal surf.
There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress
When I looked at them, they made up a sea.
When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Of night crowded into the slanting places beyond the reach of the dawn.