Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

- Graham Hawkes

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

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

- Michael Connelly

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

- Lea Thompson

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

- Jenny Eclair

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

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

- H. P. Lovecraft

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

- Andrei A. Gromyko

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

- Gustave Flaubert

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

- Edward Forbes

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

- Edward Grey

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

- Eduardo Galeano

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

- David R. Brower

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.

- Brion James

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

- Ben Okri