One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
Graham Hawkes
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Hal Holbrook
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very... →
Yusef Komunyakaa
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. Lovecraft
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will... →
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
David R. Brower