Can somebody tell me where this saying comes from?

Question:"Beware whilst searching for Knowledge in the eye of the abyss. The abyss might look back."

can somebody tell me where that saying comes from?

Answers:
CITATION] Dracula. 1897
B Stoker - Leonard Wolf as The Essential Dracula. New York: Plume, 1993
EYE OF THE ABYSS (OKO PRIRVY) [Kyiv, 1996]
The Tenth Book. Augustine, Saint. 1909-14. The Confessions of St ...Augustine Saint Augustine. (354–430). The Confessions of St. Augustine.

The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
this quotation has been more over used than heidi fleisses phonebook and parris hilton put togeather!
It originated with Friedrich Nietzsche. His full quote, from which this one is altered but clearly taken, was found (originally in German, of course) in his book BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL Part IV: Aphorisms & Interludes:

"He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you."
Sometimes there is evil in knowledge, watch our!

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