As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
Henry JamesHenry James People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
LemmyLemmy If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge
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