Top 244 Downward Quotes & Sayings

My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.

Comedy is a downward slicing sword sometimes, looking down and laughing at people.

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments.

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

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

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.

Your mind simply cant focus forward and downward all at the same time.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be stopped before it is too late.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Through incarnations, some beings do go down. That is to say, they forget. The soul falls into an eclipse of itself and there is a downward progression for a time.

Let's stop this American downward spiral.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral.

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral.

Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

When you're No. 8 in the world, then you start losing some matches, I think it was the first time in my career my confidence went down, and from there it was a downward spiral.