The Abyss Quotes

“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre. Not of honorable men but of Ehre itself, honor; the abstract is real, the actual is invisible to them. Die Güte, but not good men, this good man. It is their sense of space and time. They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life; there was once only the dust particles in space, the hot hydrogen gases, nothing more, and it will come again. This is an interval, ein Augenblick. The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life back into the granite and methane; the wheel turns for all life. It is all temporary. And they—these madmen—respond to the granite, the dust, the longing of the inanimate; they want to aid Natur.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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

“Suddenly, one day, out of nowhere, an enormous abyss opened up beneath our feet and I was staring into a face I didn't recognize.”
― Woody Allen, Interiors

“Know it or not, man treads between twin abysses a tightrope that has neither beginning nor end.”
― Fritz Leiber, Swords in the Mist

“I can only sit and wait, knowing that one day he will turn full around, step down from his stage, and claim me for the abyss I have always feared. Perhaps then I will discover what it was I did - what any of us did - to deserve this fate.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

“When you look into the abyss, it's not supposed to wave back.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves.”
― Domenico Starnone, Trick