Quotes about fall

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Walls don't fall without effort.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“First we feel. Then we fall.”

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

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”

“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.”

“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”

“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”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“… 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”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”