86 quotes found
“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into ...”
“I have seen people starting the fire with water, turning every breeze into a storm, create chaos out of peace. Few people are meant to destroy everything and themselves no matter what, and if you h...”
“When a man is standing at the top of a cliff, it isnt fear of falling that keeps him rooted to the edge its the fear of not being able to resist the desire to jump, just to see what falling feels ...”
“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always f...”
“After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to formulate a system in which an individual could believe in God, government o...”
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun ...”
“What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!”
“This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.”
“When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.”
“We both must burn this midnight oil together. Youre just as new to me as I am you. --Andrew”
“There was an image in my mindan expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a man. It wasnt like this. It was always at night with candles flickering lazily, music fill...”
“I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.”
“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”
“The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies into the sky, leaving the crowd staring in astonishment. Angels fly away in t...”
“[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return”
“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!”
“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failu...”
“the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time”
“Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.”
“There is no feeling that is comparable to that of being truly lost. I dont mean lost in the woods, or desert, but lost in the way that only can happen internally. Lost to the deepest,blackest pit o...”
