Abyss

Famous quotes containing the word abyss:

    All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)