Descent Quotes
156 quotes by 140 authors
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Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that…
— Sylvia Plath
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
— Franz Kafka
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Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find…
— Stewart O'Nan
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(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a…
— Julian Barnes
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Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with…
— Terence McKenna
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That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's…
— Steve Toltz
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I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As…
— Dave Pelzer
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon…
— James Joyce
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And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And…
— J R Ward
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I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression,…
— Stephane Mallarme
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In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend...
— John Milton
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The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
— William Carlos Williams
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His descent was like nightfall.
— Homer
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And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she…
— Laini Taylor
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