{"quotes":[{"text":"And so, she turned her back on the abyss for another day.","author":"Megan Kennedy","tags":["abyss","courage","dark","death","horror","strength-through-adversity","strong-woman"],"id":1314,"author_id":"Megan+Kennedy"},{"text":"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.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["abyss","afterlife","calm","common-sense","cradle","darkness","death","eternity","existence","life","life-after-death","light","man"],"id":2057,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"},{"text":"A growing heat, like a million blazing suns all focused on me, lit my insides. It felt like I was being cooked in the Gabriella Roast Cooker, me spinning around-and-around to heat my flesh evenly. For some reason I was having trouble comprehending the sudden change in my revolving world as I swelled with a horrible, billowing fire.","author":"Laura Kreitzer","tags":["abyss","blazing","fire","heat","kreitzer","suns","timeless","timeless-series"],"id":7593,"author_id":"Laura+Kreitzer"},{"text":"Most of the time, we try to tell ourselves 'I'm confident' or 'I'm doing well.' But then, in a moment alone at home, you feel how close you are to some kind of abyss.","author":"Christian Tetzlaff","tags":["abyss","confidence","life"],"id":9621,"author_id":"Christian+Tetzlaff"},{"text":"There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.","author":"Steve V. Cypert","tags":["abyss","alone","dark","darkness","emotion","emptiness","empty","loneliness","lonely","night-terror","nightmare","secret","want","waste"],"id":16774,"author_id":"Steve+V.+Cypert"},{"text":"Love is the gentle breeze that tingles in your heart when your mind floats into the abyss of unspoken words.","author":"Bluenscottish","tags":["abyss","bluenscottish","love","love-and-sayings"],"id":36091,"author_id":"Bluenscottish"},{"text":"The human soul is an abyss.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["abyss","human-nature","soul","wisdom"],"id":50588,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["abyss","analysis","character","darkness","insight","intuition","psyche","psychological-insight","secrets","soul"],"id":55625,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.","author":"Herman Melville","tags":["abyss","creatures","fish","sea","whales"],"id":60072,"author_id":"Herman+Melville"},{"text":"If you keep on retaliating what you receive, you'll be stuck in a infinite abyss of revenge and vendetta.","author":"Pushkar Saraf","tags":["abyss","retaliate","revenge","vendetta"],"id":60761,"author_id":"Pushkar+Saraf"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}