Abyss meaning

Noun: abyss

Pronunciation: (u’bis)

Abyss meaning: A bottomless gulf or pit. Any unfathomable cavity or chasm or void extending below.

Synonyms: chasm, abysm

Quotations: Friedrich Nietzsche – He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Martin Luther King – Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Thomas Henry Huxley – Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Lewis Mumford – By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Percy Bysshe Shelley – All things are sold, the very light of heaven is venal; earth’s unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Sample sentences:

1. I stood at the edge of the cliff and looked down into the yawning abyss.
2. She said that there is a widening abyss between the poor and the rich.
3. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
4. 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.
5. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
6. Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
7. All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
8. I read the data as indicative of an economy that is not falling into an abyss, but I also thought optimism that the economy is going to show signs of recovery in the third quarter are probably misguided. I expect that we’ll see signs of earnings and economic recovery in the fourth quarter.
9. He needs to restore investor confidence; it’s extremely unlikely he would say anything that would be viewed negatively by the markets. He’s going to make it clear that we are not looking at the abyss and we are not looking at a major recession.
10. We are sort of distressed and dismayed at the moral condition of the states. We see a tremendous slide into the abyss. It’s really, really sad.