Descending Quotes

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

The world is like a ladder: some go up and some go down.

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

I'm still on the ground, so I just do my thing.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

Those above are going down, those below are going up.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

Five – four – three – two – one

All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.

Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.

If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down

Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.