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.
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Related When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when y... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you. JOHN MILTON If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi... ROBERT AICKMAN If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes int... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in ... DAVID EDDINGS Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the a... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you ga... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow. KATHERINE DIVOLIS I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall. NALINI SINGH Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if yo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for lo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Winners defeat their fears by stepping into the abyss. Once you start, do not quit; a quitter never ... SCOTTIE SOMERS As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ... MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it. MEREDITH WILD You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss. INGRID BETANCOURT Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk... ERIN HUNTER I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours... JON KRAKAUER What is more thrilling than BASE jumping into the abyss of one’s imagination? KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into... JAMES BAMFORD but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he w... APOSTOLOS DOXIADIS Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you unde... ANTHONY LICCIONE Questions are the food of a philosopher. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The philosopher is greater than the Pastor or the Imam,because the philosopher is the only person th... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Long after an event has occurred & even forgotten,the Philosopher will continue in meditation upon t... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them. ADRIENNE RICH The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really sho... SARAH BETH DURST Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk.... PHILIP K. DICK You’re wondering whether this is a good idea. Because you’re smart and you see right through me,... MEREDITH WILD What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there l... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. FRANZ KAFKA […] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abys... ANITA BROOKNER I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness o... PAULA COLE When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let my... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character... HAL HOLBROOK Don't worry, the worst that could happen is we all die. JADE CURTISS - TALES OF THE ABYSS Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you... CHARLES STROSS Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of ... SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of ... SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of ... SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE And ShadowClan holds power over there, in the darkest part of the forest. The elders say that the co... ERIN HUNTER I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply. "You truly want me?" "Mo... KAREN MARIE MONING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. CESARE PAVESE the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have ... JOHN GEDDES Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his chara... HAL HOLBROOK Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even af... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. H. P. LOVECRAFT The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster hi... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it. STEPHEN KING Once you get into that street groove, the other side-the straight side-looks really scary. RIVER PHOENIX When you look into my eyes and see either me or you, you haven't grasped it. When you look into my e... MAURICE SPEES The Hardest Part Not the loving, but the part just after— the remembering NEENA H BRAR In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the eartha — 2 * and the earth was without... ANONYMOUS Life is a canvas it starts off plain and simple to become your own masterpiece.Gary F Evans... GARY F EVANS... There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headf... KELSEY BRICKL According to the mystics, the obscure matter that creation presupposes is nothing other than divine ... GIORGIO AGAMBEN The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge aby... PAULA COLE Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat. ERIN HUNTER So that's a fox?' Firepaw whispered. 'What an ugly muzzle!' 'You can say that again!' agreed Gr... ERIN HUNTER My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss. JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL This little girl, unfortunately, didn't just fall through the cracks. She fell into the abyss. MAVIS TAILLIEU Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins tha... ALAN MOORE I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life... CAMILLE CLAUDEL Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I wa... ERIC CLAPTON Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swall... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t. CAREW PAPRITZ Rachel had decided he WAS handsome during their hike to the camp. Though the way he kept telling her... TERI HALL If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. CORY DOCTOROW They say don't look down in life. That's just not reality. Sometimes you have to look straight into ... DAN WALDSCHMIDT Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss LORD BYRON a footnote on Friedrich Nietzsche. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other pro... DAVE ROWNTREE We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI My career had fallen into an abyss because I was so complacent with things that I had already accomp... PABLO SANDOVAL If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know... MARGUERITE YOUNG The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes. MARTY RUBIN What I was trying to say,” he whispered, “is that I see you in everything. There isn’t a word ... VERONICA ROSSI I have seen people starting the fire with water, turning every breeze into a storm, create chaos out... AKSHAY VASU When you reach the end of light in your life and you find yourself standing before a dark abyss, fai... UNKNOWN Don't worry about it, Mikey," Dee said comfortingly. "You'll probably be next, so you won't be here ... L.J. SMITH There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one ... DONALD DAVIDSON She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Sometimes, you may think you have fallen into an abyss...when in fact, you've just descended to the ... C. JOYBELL C. It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in... TAYLOR CALDWELL All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into th... 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MICHAEL MORPURGO Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write... MICHAEL MORPURGO One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi... MICHAEL MORPURGO Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. MICHAEL MORPURGO The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t... MICHAEL MORPURGO Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers. MICHAEL MORPURGO It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still... MICHAEL MORPURGO Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you wi... MICHAEL MORPURGO Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a schoo... 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GEORGE MICHAEL A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fa... MICHAEL SHEEN Once something is a passion, the motivation is there. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l... MICHAEL FASSBENDER No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. MICHAEL FRANTI