Quotes About Descent

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

El frío baja desmochado desde el hueso de luna del cielo.

eight times more people die on Everest on the way down than on the way up.

Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.

72] 381 Down the steps of my dreams and my weariness, descend from your unreality, descend and be my substitute for the world.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course.

let's go downstairs.

Riches are a claim to distinction for those who have no other right to it. Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves, and often the ancestor from whom they claim descent is one they would not allow in the house if they met him today.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

I have descended from a planet, called grief.

If not consciously acknowledged and mourned, uncertainty about one's descent can cause great anxiety and unrest, all the more so if, as in Alois's case, it is linked with an ominous rumor that can neither be proven nor completely refuted

And with a measured haste propel Yourselves from heaven through the world to hell.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

to descend from bright heaven to earth, whereon there are shadows because there are hills…

If a man cannot lead up to passion, he can at all events lead down from it

And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride permitted her to mate, and had lived on unwed, her age now thirty, and would die unwed, for no one would have her now.

She was descending quicker than most women into the colourless years, and the look in her eyes confessed it.

In this unlighted cave, one step forward That step can be the down-step into the Abyss. But we, we have no sense of direction; impetus Is all we have; we do not proceed, we only Roll down the mountain, Like disbalanced boulders, crushing before us many Delicate springing things, whose plan it was to grow.

The superstitious belief, common to miners, that gnomes or fiends dwell within the bowels of the earth, began to seize me. I shuddered at the thought of descending further and braving the inhabitants of this nether valley. Nor indeed could I have done so without ropes, as from the spot I had reached to the bottom of the chasm the sides of the rock sank down abrupt, smooth, and sheer. I retraced my steps with some difficulty. Now I have told you all.