Abyss Stares Back Quotes & Sayings

Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion. — Elizabeth Berg

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show. — Augusten Burroughs

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me. — Immanuel Velikovsky

Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit." "Perhaps — Bram Stoker

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

and then everyone was dead. — Jacob Grimm

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench

For a moment I wondered if I were not going to
love humanity. But, after all, it was their Sunday, not mine. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart ... — John Geddes

A man might think he can stare into the abyss without falling in but sometimes the abyss stares back. Sometimes the abyss exerts a strange effect on your sense of balance. — Philip Kerr

What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem ...
Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs. (p. 71) — Thomas Nagel

Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You — Dean Cavanagh

We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today — Ismail Serageldin

When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As she observed him, she briefly frowned, it was one of the quandaries a woman sometimes faces, not just a woman, but all of us: she entrances one man without effort, a man who is undesired, who follows her around like a dog, however much he is whipped or abused, while all her efforts to attract and then ensnare another man, the truly desired man, come to naught. Charm is not universal, desire is too often unreciprocated, it gathers and pools in the wrong places, slowly becoming toxic. — Katie Kitamura

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Reyna's image appeared in the rainbow, like a two-way video call. She was in the baths. Scared her out of her mind. -That I would've paid to see, Frank said. I mean-her expression. Not, you know, the baths. — Rick Riordan