Quotes by Descending 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. Constant Lambert descending spirals pilots The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Ralph Waldo Emerson descending beast men We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing. Richard Paul Evans descending climbing 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? Tennessee Williams descending broken earth