Quotes About Descent

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In Germany they had no kings. They developed them in Britain from leaders who claimed descent from the ancient gods.

It turned our that no matter how far you fall, there's always a lower place.

the descent was going to be more difficult than the ascent.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Genetic evidence, of individuals across the world, alive now, shows that all non-African people are descended from one small group that must have passed through the Arabian peninsula.

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

With him inside the elevator descended.

The proper verb for depression is sink.

But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

Even so, step by step the daylight decreases, and the cicerone's droning voice grows hollower as the traveler descends into the Catacombs. The comparison holds good! Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts?

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Cuba coule en flammes au milieu du lac Léman pendant que je descends au fond des choses.

Solan is descending in the sky...

Now he knew that it was only love when you knew there could be no end to it. When it was as inevitable as gravity. Falling in love, a helpless descent in which the only way to avoid being hurt was to keep going. Keep falling.

Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

The real battle for your own soul isn't about falling from a great height; it's about descending, or not, one choice at a time.

The real battle for your own soul isn't about falling from a great height; it's about descending, or not, one choice at a time.

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises. Easy is the descent to hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work; that is labor.

The descent to hell is easy, the black gates stand open night and day, but to climb back up again to retrace ones steps to the upper air there in lies the laborious task, the toil.

The gates of hell are open, night and day; smooth the descent, and easy the way.

The descent into Hell is easy

Facilis descensus Averno: Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. (The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this task and mighty labor lies.)

It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...