Andrew Cohen

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

American Writer

Robert Krulwich

Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it.

American Journalist

Regina Brett

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

Jim Nantz

As my father went through a really, really long and dark period of his health declining and falling deeper into the abyss, I knew I was never going to let my family and my children experience this without any long-term care.

American Entertainer

Julien Green

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

American Novelist

Eric Clapton

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

British Musician

Hal Holbrook

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

American Actor

William Butler Yeats

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Irish Poet

Joseph Campbell

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

American Author

Honore de Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

French Novelist

'Abyss' can be used metaphorically to describe a situation that is very difficult or impossible to deal with.

Metaphorical Use

'Abyss' often implies a deep emotional response, such as fear or awe, due to its vastness.

Emotional Depth

'Abyss' symbolizes extreme adverse conditions in life or events.

Severe Situations

Using 'abyss' can suggest a critical point beyond which recovery or return is very difficult.

Point of No Return

In religion, 'abyss' refers specifically to hell or a place of punishment after death.

Religious Context

'Abyss' in a religious sense is often considered an older term, not commonly used in modern language.

Archaic Term

'Abyss' in a geographic context usually refers to the deepest parts of the ocean, often unexplored.

Scientific Use

'Abyss' is part of technical vocabulary in geography or oceanography, indicating specific underwater zones.

Technical Vocabulary

 exploration they also actually believed in the underlying mission which is to push back the boundaries of the known world you know and that's what this this expedition is all about the deep trenches what they call the hazle depths below the abyssal depths like if an abyss isn't deep enough you can go to

James Cameron to Dive to...

 now I'm gonna kill her like what man you know this abyss intense I agree but I taught him chill down this is just a piece of violence give it back and he keep travelling with her in different countries and then say oh I'm gonna kill her if they don't pay I think they pay

Art can fail PIPE JR

 But again, I'm really trying to dig deep, challenge myself, find that voice and kind of honor it. A huge part of why we feel the ocean is so powerful with grief, is that she embodies this kind of endless abyss that can hold all of us.

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 that they can form the abyss, that it's pregnant with being. They can call a world into existence out of nothing. But that's a very primitive view of what a physical law is, right? We know that physical laws are actually

Why does the universe...

 I was shocked, but as I thought about what she had said, I was filled with enormous compassion and love for my mother, yet I could do nothing about it. There were many moments when I gave up, sinking into a dark abyss.

How My Mind Came Back to...

 That life could be benevolent, as we would hope to be if humans are one day able to achieve interstellar travel. Or it could be hostile. Searching for planets that might have life means staring into a great abyss.

Should we be looking for...

 It was the scariest moment of my life; an excruciating choice to make. I fell into an abyss all alone, not knowing what would be below.

How we can end sexual...

 Alright, cool, I think we're good. To all my peeps who came to get deep, deep as the abyss -- check this.

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