“She felt the abyss of disenchantment.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
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“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Variant: Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
“She felt… less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906) French Carmelite nun and mystic
It is there in the very depths that the divine impact takes place, where the abyss of our nothingness encounters the Abyss of mercy, the immensity of the all of God. There we will find the strength to die to ourselves and, losing all vestige of self, we will be changed into love.
First Day, 4
Heaven in Faith (1906)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
"Dusk"
By Still Waters (1906)
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“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.
