Quotes about fall
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“People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

People

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Love, Wedding

“Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Love, Thinking

“They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Lie, Tree

“I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“I don't know if you know it, J. B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”

Mary Stewart book The Hollow Hills

Source: The Hollow Hills

Life, Death, Light

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

Distant, Memory, Sun, Heart

“Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

Life

“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Time

“Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Love, Way

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"…
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

Spring, Sun

“No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Love, Dreams

“God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

God

“He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

“Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.”

Danielle Steel book Legacy

Source: Legacy

Love, People, Feeling, Sense

“The minute I'm in a little pain… your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Dark Hunger

Pain, Boy

“Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where I fall to my knees and shiver in fear, Your Furriness? Silly me, I didn't get the memo.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Gifts

Fear, Parting

“… falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Love

“they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflection, some place high above this wall….. and someday I shall be released.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Way, Feeling

“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

The Newcomes, Ch. 20.
Source: Vanity Fair

“You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time…”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Feeling, Time

“It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.”

Tove Jansson book The Summer Book

Source: The Summer Book

Star, Summer

“He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Love

“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.”

Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States

The earliest known occurance of a similar adage dates back to 1926, then apparently regarded as a common one of unknown origin. Its connection to Alexander Hamilton arose from confusion with its use in 1978 by a UK radio broadcaster also named Alex Hamilton.
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/18/stand-fall/#return-note-8222-15 Per QI

“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other… except through faith.”

Stephen King book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

Faith

“I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Universe

“… I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.”

Steven Erikson book Toll the Hounds

Source: Toll the Hounds

“You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell.”

Bear Grylls (1974) Chief Scout, adventurer, author

Source: Mud, Sweat and Tears

Life, Time

“You are so, even when falling." (Byakuya Kuchiki)”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you…”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Love, Disappointment

“Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Summer in the City

Love, People, Spring, Flowers

“I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

World, Dreams

“Do you fall in love often?"

Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”

Jeanette Winterson book Gut Symmetries

Source: Gut Symmetries

Love, Books, Dogs, Cats

“That's what happens when you fall. Everything that was bright about you becomes dark. As brilliant as you once were, that's how evil you become. It's a long way to fall”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Way, Evil

“The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

Thinking, Silence

“Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea
And still the sea is salt.”

A.E. Housman book A Shropshire Lad

Source: A Shropshire Lad

Star, Help, Sea

“Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Faith, Thinking

“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful…”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Love, God

“I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Box

“Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Suffering, Heart, Joy

“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

Life, Reality

“You're beautiful in battle…. Like an avenging angel come to deliver the justice of heaven."

"Funny. That is kind of why I'm here."

"Angels fall, Rose.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Justice, Beauty, Angels

“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Love, Age, Girl

“On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes.”

Philip Larkin book The Whitsun Weddings

Source: The Whitsun Weddings

Love

“If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

“Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Flowers

“Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster”

Mario Puzo (1920–1999) American Novelist

Love

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

Edmund Burke book Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Volume i, p. 526; see #Disputed below.
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents: Volume 1 Paperback: 001

Men

“Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.”

Jenna Black (1965) American writer

Source: Shadowspell

Thinking, Chance

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Love, People, Relationship, Cute

“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Shoe

“What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.”

Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) journalist from the United States

Pain, Flowers, Tree

“Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall. ~ Mercy”

Patricia Briggs book Night Broken

Source: Night Broken

Love

“One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I willhave you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Death, Way, Falseness

“If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.”

D.H. Lawrence book The Rainbow

Source: The Rainbow

“What if I fall?', Tim cried.

Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole

“It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.”

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

“She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

People, Music, Singing, Housing

“If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.”

Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA

“After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.”

Francesca Lia Block Missing Angel Juan

Source: Missing Angel Juan

Feeling, Kiss

“What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.”

Theodore Roethke The Waking

The Waking (1953), The Waking
Source: The Collected Poems
Context: This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Sleep, Learning

“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.”

Max Stirner (1806–1856) German philosopher

As quoted in Forbes Vol. 78 (1956), and in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 275
Context: Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom

“You’ll only fall if you doubt your balance.”

Willa Okati

By Your Side

“As soon as a manhas his guard up. he will not fall in love or get attached the only way he'll get attached is if you lower his guard first.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

Love, Way

“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Sun

“I shudder at the thought of men….
I'm due to fall in love again”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Love, Men

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Beauty

“What hope is there?” I asked. “If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?”

“There isn’t,” he said. “We’re on our own. And we have to make the choices we think are best for our own survival.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Hope, Angels, Thinking

“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Love, God, Tea

“But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Love, Appearance

“The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Sense

“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Love, Girl, Boy, Time

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

Age, Time

“Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Feeling, Imagination, Time, Heart

“You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy
because secretly, you don’t want it to last.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

Love, Guy, Summer

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Funny

“The “principal contradiction” refers to the idea that there is some original or primary form of oppression that gives rise to all the others. … Of course, there is really only one purpose for making such a claim: to persuade others to join you in your single-issue activist campaign, under the pretense that once your pet oppression is eliminated, all other forms of marginalization will subsequently fall by the wayside too. But the thing is, there is simply no evidence for a principal contradiction. … There is no primary contradiction, just lots of different hierarchies that people may or may not endorse.”

Julia Serano (1967) transsexual American writer, spoken-word performer, trans-bi activist, and biologist

Leftist Critiques of Identity Politics (2018)

People, Idea

“It is not the terrible occurrences that no one is spared, — a husband’s death, the moral ruin of a beloved child, long, torturing illness, or the shattering of a fondly nourished hope, — it is none of these that undermine the woman’s health and strength, but the little daily recurring, body and soul devouring care s. How many millions of good housewives have cooked and scrubbed their love of life away! How many have sacrificed their rosy checks and their dimples in domestic service, until they became wrinkled, withered, broken mummies. The everlasting question: ‘what shall I cook today,’ the ever recurring necessity of sweeping and dusting and scrubbing and dish-washing, is the steadily falling drop that slowly but surely wears out her body and mind. The cooking stove is the place where accounts are sadly balanced between income and expense, and where the most oppressing observations are made concerning the increased cost of living and the growing difficulty in making both ends meet. Upon the flaming altar where the pots are boiling, youth and freedom from care, beauty and light-heartedness are being sacrificed. In the old cook whose eyes are dim and whose back is bent with toil, no one would recognize the blushing bride of yore, beautiful, merry and modestly coquettish in the finery of her bridal garb.”

Dagobert von Gerhardt (1831–1910) German writer

To the ancients the hearth was sacred; beside the hearth they erected their lares and household-gods. Let us also hold the hearth sacred, where the conscientious German housewife slowly sacrifices her life, to keep the home comfortable, the table well supplied, and the family healthy."
"von Gerhardt, using the pen-name Gerhard von Amyntor in", A Commentary to the Book of Life. Quote taken from August Bebel, Woman and Socialism, Chapter X. Marriage as a Means of Support.

Love, Life, Death, God

“You've got it all turned upside-down.
Does the rain that's sent each spring anew to fall on her not fall on you?
You project on her your inward scenes, she's a blank, external movie screen.
But the One who looks out from your eyes looks through hers and through mine.”

Aaron Weiss

Bullet to Binary (Pt.2).
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

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