Quotes About Ascent

Era caduto dal suo modesto trono di re pastore fin giù, negli abissi melmosi di Siddim; ma gli erano rimaste una calma dignitosa che non aveva mai conosciuto prima e quell'indifferenza al destino che, benché spesso faccia dell'uomo un violento, diversamente è la base della sua sublimazione. Insomma, la sua caduta in basso era diventata un'ascesa, la perdita un guadagno.

They fly toward grace.

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need to risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Until he taught me to fl, I didn't realize how deep beneath the earth I'd buried my hopes and dreams.

the mountain between us is one i cannot climb .

We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

The hills climbed sunward to the sun. 

the five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase

come on up." "Up?

George R.R. Martin

Gripped by a feverish urge to climb, he felt like running up the stone stairs. People often talk of the attraction of the abyss. There is also the abyss above. Borluut was still going up; he would have liked to keep on going up for ever, melancholy at the thought that the stairway was doubtless going to stop and that at the end, on the edge of the air, he would still yearn to continue, go farther, higher.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.