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Quotes About Fainting

There's a YouTube video of these two kittens that just fall over and pass out. My blood sugar's crazy, so I would pass out sometimes, like the fainting kittens.
~ Kelsea Ballerini
I do believe I shall faint," announced Lady Agnes. The men holding her tightened their grips and she turned and scowled at them. They let go. She staggered over to Dominic.
~ Kathryne Kennedy
Ophelia moaned as I patted her cheeks in the approved "vague assistance to woman who has fainted" manner. "Perdy?" she mumbled, her eyelashes fluttering. "No, it's just me," I said, looking up when the door opened. "And Drake and Fiat, and Pal and Istvan, and I think that's Renaldo and another one of Fiat's bullies in the hall, although it's a little hard to see with everyone in the way.
~ Katie MacAlister
Whatever was in the syringe was taking hold of her again, pulling her down, and she felt herself swoon. There was some comfort when she closed her eyes again, and she knew she wouldn't last very long before she passed out again.
~ C.J. Box
Paris answered for him. "Last time he spread the flashing love, Reyes threw up all over his shirt. I never laughed so hard in my life. Lucien, though, has no sense of humor and vowed never to take us again." "I'm surprised you didn't mention the part where you fainted," Lucien said wryly. Strider chortled. "Oh, man. You fainted? What a baby!" "Hey," Paris said, frowning at Lucien. "I told you I hit my head midflash." Lucien
~ Gena Showalter
She occasionally daydreamed about being the sort of character in a story who could faint and leave everyone else to sort things out. But that wasn't going to happen.
~ Genevieve Cogman
She occasionally daydreamed about being the sort of character in a story who could faint and leave everyone else to sort things out.
~ Genevieve Cogman
You're not ordinary, Gwyneth," he whispered as he began stroking my hair. "You're totally, absolutely extraordinary. You don't need the magic of any raven to be special to me." He leaned as close as he could get, with his head and arms through the opening of the confessional window, and when his lips touched my mouth, I shut my eyes. Okay. So now I was going to faint.
~ Kerstin Gier
it was more likely that they would lose consciousness from the gee forces first—a relatively painless way to go.
~ Neal Stephenson
I'm going to kiss you... until you faint
~ L.J. Smith
He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.
~ Cassandra Clare
Connor stared at his arm, at the huge black burn, the peeling and bubbling skin. He felt oddly detached from it all, as if he looked at some little wonder behind glass. "Would you look at that?" he said, and passed out.
~ Nora Roberts
Kisses, my love, deep ones, to the point of fainting-
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You till be glad to know the President is practicing safe snacks. in reference to her husband's fainting spell caused by a pretzel
~ Laura Bush
Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.
~ Jane Austen
Never did I see such an affecting Scene as was the meeting of Edward and Augustus. 'My Life! my Soul!' (exclaimed the former). 'My Adorable Angel!' (replied the latter) as they flew into each other's arms. It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and myself -- We fainted alternately on a sofa.
~ Jane Austen
My mother fainted. Crash, onto the floor with the big wooden spoon still in her hand.
~ Janet Evanovich
My dear Hiram, cried Mrs. Otis, what can we do with a woman who faints? Charge it to her like breakages, answered the Minister; she won't faint after that;
~ Oscar Wilde
Henry, for heaven's sake! You can't propose when I'm fainting!
~ Patricia Wentworth
She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.
~ Jeannette Walls
His face was knotted with rage. He felt like fainting but couldn't remember the proper way to fall.
~ Woody Allen
The time there was only the one warm-up room for everyone, a room so astonishingly hot and airless and noisy, so crowded with extraordinarily talented-seeming musicians, that everything had begun to spin like a merry-go-round, and a French cellist had reached out a languid hand to save Clementine's cello as it slipped from her grasp. (She was a champion fainter.) The
~ Liane Moriarty
Hey," he said, and we all turned to look at him. Deke nodded at the floor. "The lady fainted," he said, and we all turned to look where he had nodded. Mrs. Aldovar, as advertised, was out cold on the floor.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible anymore, nor would I have to feel so dizzy and sick. Than maybe when I woke up, all of this would go away and I'd find it was all just a bad dream. The mist started to turn dark around the edges.....For the record: fainting sucks.
~ Jenna Black