“A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.”

“In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”

“For whatsoever from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”

“The blossoms of the apricot
blow from the east to the west,
And I have tried to keep them from falling.”

“Thus falling, falling from afar,
As if some melancholy star
Had mingled with her light her sighs,
And dropped them from the skies.”

“Falling from the pan
Into the fire beneath.”

“And thou wert lovely to the last,
Extinguish'd, not decay'd;
As stars that shoot along the sky
Shine brightest as they fall from high.”

“Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.”

“More stars fall from the loosened sky.”
Pluraque laxato ceciderunt sidera caelo.