O sun, heart of the heavens whose blood of light Infuses the vigor which transmutes to azure The black ice strangler of great space obscure hate you, mask of gold, mist and fire, circular Blind monster blinding all the prey around You who veil the impure dazzling phantasm To the loving vertigo of my avid gazes The visions of the colorless abyss of the void Reversed hollow truth-mask of the other world.

— Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

Passion drove her deeper, into the abyss beneath his skin where she mapped his soul to the dance of his heartbeat...

— Virginia Alison

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.

— Criss Jami

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!

— Apostolos Doxiadis

Send a coin into the abyss and wish for a blissful kiss

— Sean F. Hogan

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 to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The human soul is an abyss

— Fernando Pessoa

The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time

— Sir James Hall