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Quotes About Falling

Once you have fallen off the edge like all of us have, you will never stop falling. And as you fall you will hold on to other falling people. The sooner you understand that the better. This place where we live, where we made our home, is the place of falling people. Here there is baqeeqat. Arre, even we aren't real. We don't really exist
~ Arundhati Roy
The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness.
~ Atul Gawande
Bludau needed to triage by zeroing in on either the most potentially life-threatening problem or the problem that bothered her the most. But this was evidently not what he thought. He asked almost nothing about either issue. Instead, he spent much of the exam looking at her feet. The single most serious threat she faced was [...] falling. The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness.
~ Atul Gawande
The single most serious threat she faced was not the lung nodule or the back pain. It was falling. Each year, about 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, 40 percent end up in a nursing home, and 20 percent are never able to walk again. The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness.
~ Atul Gawande
Each year, about 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, 40 percent end up in a nursing home, and 20 percent are never able to walk again. The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness. Elderly people without these risk factors have a 12 percent chance of falling in a year. Those with all three risk factors have almost a 100 percent chance.
~ Atul Gawande
You jumped but I'm falling too.
~ August Wilson
Love is a response to values. It is with a person's sense of life that one falls in love—with that essential sum, that fundamental stand or way of facing existence, which is the essence of a personality.
~ Ayn Rand
Isn't joy a kind of stillness at the top of something, before the long falling?
~ Stephen Dunn
Lover, she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.
~ Stephen King
What must it be like for a suicide coming down from a high ledge? I'm sure it must be a very sane feeling. That's probably why they scream all the way down.
~ Stephen King
Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.
~ Fridtjof Nansen
It seems the more I think about not sinning, the more I sin, but the more I think about just loving Jesus, the less I seem to sin. Falling in love seems to be the key.
~ John Wimber
We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.
~ Julian of Norwich
the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves
~ Lucille Clifton
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
~ Sappho
The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.
~ John Hersey
Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.
~ Jackie Collins
The girl's eyes rolled high and he fell backward. Dez
~ Jonathan Maberry
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
~ Emily Saliers
1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping higher and higher. The problem was that ... the riders flew off in mid-air because
~ Eric von Hippel
You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.' 'Yeah,' I said, re­cov­er­ing the power of speech. 'When I met you.
~ Erich Segal
There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.
~ Erich Segal
What if she let falling in love with him be as natural as gravity?
~ Bella Andre
I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.
~ Ben Barnes