1 Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Eliot, Death, Descent, Shadows, 0 George Eliot Author · England Copy
2 If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Albert Camus, Descent, Joy, Sorrow, 0 Albert Camus Author · France Copy
3 The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don’t have to drag me down, I descend. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Shawn Colvin, Descent, Ignorance, Understanding, 0 Shawn Colvin Singer-songwriter Copy
4 The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Steve House, Challenge, Descent, Growth, 0 Steve House Climber · USA Copy
5 Ambition displeases when it has been sated … having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Pierre Corneille, Ambition, Descent, Satisfaction, 0 Pierre Corneille Playwright · France Copy
6 It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plutarch, Descent, Honor, Legacy, 0 Plutarch Historian and Biographer · Greece Copy
7 Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. Read explanation Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Immanuel Kant, Descent, Godliness, Self-knowledge, 0 Immanuel Kant Philosopher · Prussia Copy
8 Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Robert Bly, Descent, Men, Tragedy, 0 Robert Bly Poet · USA Copy
9 The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way! Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Robert Browning, Deception, Descent, Temptation, 0 Robert Browning Poet · England Copy
10 Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Emily Saliers, Descent, Fear, Self-awareness, 0 Emily Saliers Singer-songwriter Copy
11 Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. Author, June 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Saint Augustine, Beginning, Descent, Rise, 0 Saint Augustine Theologian and philosopher · Algeria Copy
12 The descent to Hades is the same from every place. Author, July 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Anaxagoras, Afterlife, Descent, Equality, 0 Anaxagoras Philosopher · Greece Copy
13 The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned Author, October 17, 2023January 2, 2025, William Carlos Williams, Ascent, Descent, Temptation, 0 William Carlos Williams Poet · USA Copy
14 We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness Author, September 8, 2023January 2, 2025, Joseph Conrad, Descent, Exploration, Isolation, 0 Joseph Conrad Writer · Poland Copy
…proved that woman isn’t a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. Louisa May Alcott Author · USA
To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being. Hazrat Inayat Khan
Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started. Read explanation Robert Greene Playwright and author · England
