
“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”
Variant: When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”
Variant: When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Said on a television show, cited in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. ISBN 0-345-45282-8, ch. 1, p. 22 https://books.google.it/books?id=RbxeFLpNnxUC&pg=PA22.
Let's Make a Night to Remember
Song lyrics, 18 til I Die (1996)
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”