Quotes About Descent

I sung of chaos and eternal night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down the dark decent, and up to reascend...

But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to?

Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So

Facilis descensus averno - The descent into hell is easy

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell.

There was another twenty-foot descent after the ladder ended at the ledge, but it wasn't as smooth as the upper stretch, so Rafe could climb down.

This was more than an unexpected turn. It was an unchecked slide into hell.

el poder es una escalera por la cual, cuando se empieza a ascender, no hay ni final ni descenso, salvo la caída, que a muchos les acontece pues arriba no hay lugar para todos.

Without quite noticing it, I had slid downward to a place where, as Styron put it, "all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity.

We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!

There, by that water which is also beyond, two black wings turn in their mirror, the mirror the tree makes above them, and then break with the incomplete torture of the shade descending.

It is easy to go downhill; gravity does all the work.

And still go down. Now ladder-mouth; and the precipitous fear, uncertain rungs down into after-night. "This is the place. Away from this my life I am indeed Adam unparadiz'd. Some fools call this the Black Hole of Calcutta, I don't know how they ever get to Congress.

A finely tuned spike of pain speared through his skull, signalling a detectable breach in his conditioning. He didn't want to stop his decent into chaos. What he wanted was to hurt the men who'd dared look at her.

You know," she murmured, "we're all heading straight to hell." "Yes," said Masako, giving her a bleak look. "It's like riding downhill with no brakes." "You mean, there's no way to stop?" "No, you stop all right - when you crash.

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls...

The only hope of success is the way of love as agape rather than eros. From this rival perspective, the secret of the search is not our "great ascent" but "the great descent" - of God toward us. Instead of the seeker finding love, love seeks out the seeker - not because the seeker is worthy of love but simply because love's nature is to love regardless of the worthiness or merit of the one loved.

Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in either case to be a mass of vices, I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.

I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.

pedigree was for animals

Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without "the light that is within me" becoming dark.