“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Variant: When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Variant: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
“When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.”
Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time
Source: Thief of Time
Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) Novelist
"Honoria" (1957); republished in The New American, Vol. 19, No. 20, (6 October 2003)
1950s
“And when the abyss looks into you - and it will - may you look back unflinching.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: Challenger Deep
“Maybe that's what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Letter to Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) published in Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1996)
Source: Selected Letters, 1940-1956
“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor
“This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
"A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" (1922)