#abyss

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

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