Quotes About Falling

He fell into sleep then, as a body weighted with stones and wrapped in winding sheets falls into deep water.

The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world.

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

The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Falling in love is not the most stupid thing that people do," Einstein scribbled on the letter, "but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Who else but that oracle of American liberalism, the New York Times, could run the puzzled headline: "Crime Keeps On Falling, but Prisons Keep On Filling." But? How about this wild theory: If you lock up the criminals, crime declines.

It's that hum in your left ear, A sigh coming from deep within you, A dream in which you keep falling forever, The hour in which you sit up in bed As though someone has shouted your name.

Will? What are you doing?" "Being in love with you." "No, you're not. You're falling in love." "Same thing." "Not the same thing," she says. "Falling in love is a story." She says that telling a love story is something one person does. Being in love takes both of them. Putting her on a pedestal is just a different way of being alone.

Well, Lockwood was an absolute sort of person, wasn't he? He wouldn't fall in love like tripping over a brick. He was the sort to rear back, run, catapult over the side of an airship's railing, and fall, fall, fall into love before smacking into the Ocean of Delirious Wanderings.* *Which would sever his limbs from his body on impact, causing Death by Unmitigated Joy.

Love is like landing on a heart after falling a decade from heaven.

Sleeping in your arms was like floating in a dream, carrying me to bed was like falling from your arms onto a love heart cloud.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Ernest Goss fell backward into the piano again, fortissmo. He regained his balance with an E-flat chord and lunged at Teddy.

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

Your eyes are a blue universe, and I'm just falling into them. No parachute. I don't need one because I'm never going to hit the ground.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.

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.

While the rain of your fingertips falls, while the rain of your bones falls and your laughter and marrow falls down, you come flying.

Rechazada al caer, y sin forma obstinada.

Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.