Abyss Quotations
Abyss Quotes from:
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Fernando Pessoa
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Angelus Silesius
- Franz Kafka
- Alan Ball
- Aleister Crowley
- Anais Nin
- Antonin Artaud
- Blaise Pascal
- Clarice Lispector
- Daniel Waldschmidt
- David Lloyd George
- Denis Johnson
- Dylan Thomas
- Ed Balls
- Francois Rabelais
- Frederick Buechner
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Georg Buchner
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Allow Quotes
When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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Avoid Quotes
The first law of reason is what exists, exists;what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principleall knowledge is build. He said that was the foundation from which life is embraced. He said thinking is a choice, and that wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they means to discover them. Richard said reason is our only way of grasping reality - that it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking - to reject reason - but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.