“However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.” ThinkingLosesSeaFeetDangerArmsHigherHeavyAtmosphereHeightEnterpriseArticlesLayersAbyssProvisionFluidRisenBalloonsAmmunitionOverboard Book:The Collected Works Of Jules Verne Source: The Collected Works Of Jules Verne
“Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.” KnowsFeetBirdFlightHeightRelatedAspirationEcstasyAbyss Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.” HumansMayMomentsHuman BeingsFeetHuman NatureDifficultyDisasterThreadAbyssSpoilDiscontent Author:Ivan Turgenev
“If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.” IfsFeelsWritingHas BeensAbleFeetDangerousPainfulExperimentsVoidAbyssSkirts Author:Hermann Hesse