How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. — Johnny Cash
I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night. — H. P. Lovecraft
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. — Vladimir Nabokov
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Between saying and fact, there is a great divide. — Spanish Proverbs
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity. — Yves Klein
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. — H. P. Lovecraft
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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. — Julien Green
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. — Joseph Campbell
When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering. — Matsuo Basho
Short Chasm Quotes
The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose. — T. D. Jakes
One does not simply walk into Mordor. — Peter Jackson
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. — Benjamin Disraeli
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. — David Lloyd George
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Faith in Christ is not some blind leap into a dark chasm, but a faith based on established evidence. — Hank Hanegraaff
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. — Ruckett
Crossing The Chasm Quotes
Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George
Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life. — Jimmy Carter
Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George
Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud. — Aaron Levie
Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps. — Anthony De Mello
There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans. — Isaac Marion
I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when. — Philip Gulley
Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being. — Gary A. Kowalski
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. — Edvard Munch
We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water. — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner. — Georgette Heyer
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery! — Karl Liebknecht
The more clearly we see the infinite chasm between God's glory and our sinful falling short thereof, the greater will be our appreciation of His grace and love in bridging that gulf to redeem us. — Dave Hunt
If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness. — Loren Eiseley
My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God. — Eben Alexander
We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith? — Diane Arbus
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think. — Joseph Campbell
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist. — Czeslaw Milosz
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible — Samuel Johnson
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us. — Nelson Mandela
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction. — Russell Baker
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. — Veronica Roth
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. — Cleveland Amory
Love is the most dangerous thing in the world. — Jennifer Beals
That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera. — David Travis
Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car. — Neil LaBute
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Eros is a unique experience but it is not love itself. It bridges the gap between sexuality and love; it spans the chasm between two people. — John Pierrakos
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life. — George Eliot
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow. — Neal A. Maxwell
This is my prayer for all of us — 'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us. — Rick Riordan
Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal? — Alan Moore
Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love. — Richard Bach
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George
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