Quotes About Descent

A person falling does not, mid-plummet, look up.

If Chopin's Nocturne in F Minor, op. 55, no. 1 is like looking for a love lost in the darkness, this is the descent into love, in all its richness, mortifications, and subsequent glories.

Germans of Jewish descent accounted for an outsize portion of the culture for which the nation would earn renown.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death through freezing - a pleasant one.

The fossil bird Archaeopteryx is late Jurassic in age (146 million years old) so a thread of descent must connect the tinamou

he just tells him to "descend" from his power position, "go away and get rid of all your possessions." Money is only the metaphor here; the real possession he has to get rid of is his ego.

I see thy glory like a shooting starFall to the base earth from the firmament.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.

When a person has been given up by God, he will never do good things. He will not improve but only descend lower and lower.

One-woman waterfall, she wearsHer slow descent like a long capeAnd pausing, on the final stairCollects her motions into shape.

Humanity is a kind of animal, inextricably connected with other animals: in origin and in descent, in sickness and in health.

Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

so each day brought a further descent into the depths of concrete existence and a further ascent toward the heights of abstraction.

In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself.

ONE DISCOVERY It is easy to go down into Hell Ã¢â'¬Â¦; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air—there's the rub.… —VIRGIL, Aeneid

No one in this world comes from nothing.

The gardener Adam and his wifeSmile at the claims of long descent.

as if dropped from a great height falling

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

as though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice

My only regret involved the sad knowledge that I could not handle the amount of alcohol I would have enjoyed. "Easy is the descent into Hell.

I think we'd better go." Her breath fluttered the folds along the front of her bodice. A subtle scent of summer berries teased his nose. "Aren't you the least bit curious?" "Yes," she whispered. Bending his elbows, he leaned down. She placed her fingers against his lips. "I think we'd better go." Stopping his descent, he took the end of her finger into his mouth and grazed it with his teeth, then kissed it.