Quotes About Descent

Facilis descensus Averni.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

Believe me, you still have a long way to fall, a very long way.

where the moon and stars do not exist, where the sun will never rise, where the path is ever downward, yet he descends in a desperate search, for

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means… I went down into the void, to the most absolute bottom conceivable, and once there I saw that the extreme limit must have been much, much farther below, very remote, and I went on falling, to reach it.

You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.

Where to begin? I don't even know how to ask. Too many tongues are mixed in my mouth. But at the crossing of these winds, very diligent, I immerse myself in the laws of heavenly grammar: I am learning the declensions and ascensions of silence. ... If it has been ordained that I pull out of here, I'll try to descend rung by rung, I hold onto each one, carefully – but there is no end to the ladder, and already no time. All I can still do is fall into the world

Prachtig subliem in zijn ondergang, verheerlijkte hij zich in de krankzinnigheid zijner tragedie

But this was only the first move, so to speak, in Sir Mort's intercourse with the cosmic multiplicity. The next thing this crazy owner of Roque must needs do was to pull himself out of the hole into which he had descended with such persistence and proceed to shoot himself through the air! On this air-borne quest he was careful to avoid every conceivable collision. He avoided the Moon and he avoided every planet. He avoided all the falling stars.

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.

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, the task and mighty labor lies.

Fue como si me hubiera caído, desde el borde del mundo, al vacío. Un borde que apareció así, como de repente.

If unity lies in the Apostolical succession, an act of schism is from the nature of the case impossible; for as no one can reverse his parentage, so no Church can undo the fact that its clergy have come by lineal descent from the Apostles. Either there is no such sin as schism, or unity does not lie in the Episcopal form or in the Episcopal ordination.

She shot from the sky to the bottom of the sea with her son beside her screaming, Sorrow hugged to his chest.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

A boy is coming down a flight of stairs.

Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine.

Everything to the north and east of that line was ruled by men of Scandinavian descent.

would in due course produce stepbrothers with stronger claims of royal descent.