Emotional Descent Quotes

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself.

Falling hard and fast. And there didn't seem to be a thing I could do about it.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.