#abyss

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

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

#back #character #finds #him #his

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 gaze back into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#back #become #does #enough #fights

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#awareness #becomes #begin #being #disappears