#abyss

When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The days had shortened and night came swiftly. One moment it was light, the next it was dark. The sun did not set but fell into the water like a meteor. Late in the evening, when I went out briefly, a hot wind slapped my face. From the ocean came a roar of passions that seemed to have broken through all barriers:'We mus procreate and multiply! We must exhaust all the powers of lust!' The waves glowed like lava, and I imagined I could see multitudes of living beings - algae, whales, sea monsters - reveling in an orgy, from the surface to the bottom of the sea. Immortality was the law here. The whole planet raged with animation. At times, I heard my name in the clamor: the spirit of the abyss calling me to join them in their nocturnal dance. ("Hanka") ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#equator #ocean #orgy #sea #sea-monsters

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#bolano #books #literature-and-illness #sex #travel

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#cynical #negative #nietzsche #people #cynicism

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. ↗

— Paula Cole

#darkness #find #get #happiness #huge

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground. ↗

— Paula Cole

#darkness #get #ground #happiness #huge

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#definitely #gravitate #i #laughter #out

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#am #beings #fond #full #i

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#any #blindly #follow #hallucination #illusion

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss. ↗

— Andrei A. Gromyko

#end #may #over #sword #tightrope

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests. ↗

— Stephen Hadley

#bit #concluded #diminishing #further #i