Quotes about fall page 9
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
Source: Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims
“I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Ghost Town
“Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not.”
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Full Moon
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
“Mountain-rose petals
Falling, falling, falling now…
Waterfall music”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Leaving Time
“I didn't fall for you, you tripped me!”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Firefly Lane
“Falling tears in my heart,
Falling rain on the town.
Why this long ache,
A knife in my heart.”
Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) French poet
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur?
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 1, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 69
Source: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition
“Tap Life on the shoulders and fall a little more in love.”
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Love on the Lifts
“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Vanishing Acts
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Page 23.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
“I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
Source: Man With Bags
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 12: The Cry of the Hunters
Context: His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
“If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.”
Charles Simic (1938) American poet
Source: The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Animal Magnetism
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
Source: Blood Promise
“The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
“Freely we serve. Because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Wajma, p. 228
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.”
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding
Wilson Lewis, Epilogue, p. 262-263
Variant: But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)
Context: The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.
Elizabeth Cohen American journalist
Source: The Hypothetical Girl
“Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.”
Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist
Source: Every Boy's Got One
“You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.”
Neal Shusterman book The Dark Side of Nowhere
Source: The Dark Side of Nowhere
“Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.”
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Walk
Peggy Orenstein (1961) American writer
Source: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Victim fall in love with excuses”
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
“Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: One Hundred Names
“So how come it looks so beautiful?
How come the moon falls from the sky?”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
Source: The Eraser
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: 20th Century Ghosts
“In times of war, the law falls silent.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Rabih Alameddine book An Unnecessary Woman
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
“Thank you, Rukia… Because of you, the rain has stopped falling.”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 20
“Things fall apart, it's scientific.”
David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music
