Quotes about fall
page 10

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

World, Memory

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.”

John Webster (1578–1634) English dramatist

Act V, scene v.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)

“Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.”

Helen Fisher (1947) Canadian anthropologist

Source: Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

Love

“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Sense

“The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall?
The Once-ler: Uh, down?
The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”

Dr. Seuss The Lorax

Source: The Lorax

Way, Tree

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Love, Way, Nature, Thinking

“The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

“Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.”

Mary Doria Russell Children of God

Source: Children of God

God, Happiness, World, Change

“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love, Search

“I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.”

Tana French book Broken Harbour

Source: Broken Harbour

Thinking, Hurt

“Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.”

Billie Letts (1938–2014) American novelist and educator

Home

“When I saw you fall…"
"You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us

Age

“I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Source: Poems

“Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

Life, Way

“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.”

Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer

Love, Life

“Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.”

Mark Mirabello (1955) American writer

Source: The Cannibal Within

“If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.”

Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist

Love

“I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Love

“Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won’t you, and I’ll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.

But my innocence is gone forever.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Way, Feeling, Night

“There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them. In romances the characters are going to fall in love with each other; you know that when you see the syrupy cover. It's how get there that's the fun.”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Love, Dependency

“There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Love, Men, For Men

“What falls away is always. And is near.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

“It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Life, Way, Time

“I'll never fall in love again… it's like having two souls at the same time.”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

Love, Soul, Time

“Seven half-bloods shall answer the call
To storm or fire the world must fall
An oath to keep with a final breath
and foes bear arms to the doors of death”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Death, World

“When to stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Suffering

“There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Men

“I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell

Love, Pain, Hurt, Personality

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Variant: People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Love, People

“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Dead

“Let me fall out of the window/
With confetti in my hair”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Source: Lyrics of Tom Waits: The Early Years, 1971-1983

“I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

Life, Despair

“It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

Source: Forever . . .

“I don’t want to.. you know, fall for you any worse than I already have.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: Fire with Fire

“I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much… so, so much.”

Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer

Source: Maizon at Blue Hill

Death, Hope, Way, Star

“And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

“Walls don't fall without effort.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Bruiser

Effort

“I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Hate, Night

“Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

Love, Men, Question

“I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Love, Passion

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Waiting, Perfection

“As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

World, Flying

“I need a bodyguard."
Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love

“Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Guy

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Love, Good Morning

“I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape---the lonliness of it---the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it---the whole story dosen't show.”

Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) Realist painter

Feeling, Winter, Waiting, Dead

“There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.”

James St. James (1966) American writer

People, Time

“The taller they are, the longer they fall.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Effort, Time

“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Love, Drink, Sleep

“With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Wisdom

“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”

Robin Wasserman (1978) American writer of speculative fiction for young people

Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow

People

“If anyone was going to fall prey to a handsome vampire, it was going to be me.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: Cryptic Cravings

“There is but one task for all --
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?"

[]”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Source: Complete Verse

Life, Freedom

“Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

Night

“I like to think that when I fall,
A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea,
This shelf of books along the wall,
Beside my bed, will mourn for me.”

Robert W. Service Ballads of a Bohemian

Source: Ballads of a Bohemian

Death, Books, Thinking, Sea

“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Love, Family, Girl

“The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: Finally

Time

“In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Life

“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Children

“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

War, World, Thinking, Memory

“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Love, Religion

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Source: Fight Club

God, Flying

“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Time, Success

“What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?”

Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer

Source: Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975

Love

“We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Love, Hope, Time, Parting

“First we feel. Then we fall.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

Feeling

“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”

Patricia Highsmith book The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

Love, People, Smile

“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) American novelist, short story writer and poet

Love, Friendship

“When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse”

Theodore Dreiser book Sister Carrie

Source: Sister Carrie

Home, Girl

“And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

Personality

“We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

“If Aphrodite is angry, she might make you fall in love with a toy poodle, or a telephone pole.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Love

“Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender

God, Error, Feeling, Strong

“The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Game

“some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.”

Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Love, People

“When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: The Dead of Night

Thinking

“He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Love, Star, Kiss

“Glory falls around us
as we sob
a dirge of
desolation on the Cross
and hatred is the ballast of
the rock
which lies upon our necks
and underfoot.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

"Glory Falls"
I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)
Source: Letter to My Daughter

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

People, Thinking, Reality

“Falling into Place:
deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God

Love, Hope

“He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Evil Angel, Act V, scene iv
Source: Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)

Love, Pleasure

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”

Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer

Winter, Change, Summer, Country

“Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Love, Help

“Mary-Lynnette had an inexplicable impulse to knock Ash flat and fall down on top of him. She'd never felt that for any boy before.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

Boy

“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Life, Pain, People, Way

“… i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through”

Leonard Cohen book Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

Love

“His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Beauty, Color, Perfection

“… painfully curious… about how it feels to fall.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Feeling

“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.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Hurt

“If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

Dreams

“But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”

George Eliot book Silas Marner

Source: Silas Marner

Water

“The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 26
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Appearance, Personality

Quotes about fall page 10

Quotes about fall
page 10