Downward Trajectory Quotes

An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.

I realize that as quick as you go up, you can really come down that quick. And we've seen it happen with others.

Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.

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.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

When you have been lucky enough to move up the ladder, all you see, really, is the slide back down. You don't see the further steps upwards.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.