Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below — Hugh Miller
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? — Thomas Merton
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. — Joseph Campbell
Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The “through-and-through” universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. — William James