Abyss – Quotes

I could see that

I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness. Gangaji

She felt the abyss

She felt the abyss of disenchantment. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? Eugenio Montale

As I crawled out

As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen’s poem Insensibility puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war. Eugene B. … Read more

To the non-combatants and

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no … Read more

Writing a book is

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it’s horrible to have a book out. Ethan Canin

The Holy Bible is

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. Ernest Hello

I am young, I

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. Erich Maria Remarque

Anarchism asserts the possibility

Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence, –the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism … Read more

Is Bliss then, such

Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I’d rather suit my foot Than save my Boot — For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store — But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more — … Read more