Quotes About Descent

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

We were descending into an organism.

The hell of that, the hell of nothing at all, which feels as if you are reliving every moment of your life at the Southern Reach-descending for no reason, for nothing, to find nothing.

path of descent becomes our own liberation. We are freed from the exhausting stance of defense. We are no longer compelled to be right and are thus relieved from the burden of maintaining some reputation. We are released from the idols of greed, control, and status. The pressure to protect the house of cards is alleviated when we take the lowest place.

And then a Plank in Reason, broke/And I dropped down, and down

Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Let us not lose sight of the fact that the idea of Surrealism aims quite simply at the total recovery of our psychic force by a means which is nothing other than the dizzying descent into ourselves, the systematic illumination of hidden places and the progressive darkening of other places, the perpetual excursion into the midst of forbidden territory, and that there is no real danger of its activities coming to an end so long as man still manages to distinguish an animal from a flame or a stone

Ambition aspires to descend.

Once a country descends into evil, it doesn't emerge.

Falling does not cover the speed and abruptness of being thrown from less than ten feet high.

Bellamy had come down from scanning the heavens only to find himself in the depths of hell.

Except if you're of European descent. Your lactase continues to work throughout your life. This unusual phenomenon is called lactase persistence, and although a splash of milk in tea is the English way, and even a mug of hot chocolate might seem very normal to us, we are the weird ones.

I will tell you it simply: he felt he was falling. He felt he fell through a succession of wells, of holes, of chasms, and that I was there at windows, and we would be together for a moment as he fell by. Then I would rush to the next window , down and down, and he would fall past, and I would see him again.

Omul tân?r tinde cu toat? f?ptura spre zenitul vieÈ›ii.Drumul duce înc? în sus.Când ajunge pe culme È™i o porneÈ™ti pe drumul care duce în jos È™i z?reÈ™ti valea cufundat? în umbrele înser?rii, gândul morÈ›ii îÈ›i devine mai familiar.

If liberals no longer pride themselves on being the adults in the room, the bulwark against the whims of the mob, our national descent into chaos will be complete.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--

The poet replied: "I always am, my child; you will be too in a few years. While one is climbing the ladder, one sees the top and feels hopeful; but when one has reached that summit, one sees the descent and the end which is death. It is slow work ascending, but one descends rapidly. At your age one is joyous; one hopes for many things which never come to pass. At mine, one expects nothing but death.

Plus bas, encore plus bas, toujours plus bas.

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of contradictions. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberating than is the descent into horror.

I've taken such a giant step onto that slope that I've slid straight down to the cesspool at its bottom.

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.