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Quotes About Falling

Once, in the rain, a van turned a corner suddenly at her and she stumbled over her boots into a ditch and then she saw herself clearly: a woman in early middle age wearing rubber boots walking in the dark looking for a white car and now falling into a ditch, prepared to go on walking and to be satisfied with the sight of the man's car in a parking lot even if the man was somewhere else and with another woman.
~ Lydia Davis
She loved him, and her heart was breaking. If she had known how much it hurt to love someone, she never would have given away her heart. But it wasn't a question of giving as much as falling.
~ Lynn Austin
We thought there was a great distance between the future and us, and now here we are, falling through it.
~ Unknown
É melhor cair das nuvens que de um segundo andar
~ Machado de Assis
The stairs were certainly steep; and in those days, when they could rarely see their own feet, women were always falling; it was a commonplace of domestic life.
~ John Fowles
ENGLISH POLICY toward Mary was beginning to fall apart. Elizabeth was losing her nerve.
~ John Guy
Houses nearby were burning, and when huge drops of water the size of marbles began to fall, he half thought that they must be coming from the hoses of firemen fighting the blazes. (They were actually drops of condensed moisture falling from the turbulent tower of dust, heat, and fission fragments that had already risen miles into the sky above Hiroshima.)
~ John Hersey
The only reason I love sleeping so much, is because my life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake...
~ Unknown
I built this shield around my heart. I didn't feel like falling apart. I closed my eyes and count to ten. I want go back to the days when I didn't pretend. I miss my smile. I missed being happy every once in awhile.
~ Unknown
You can fall from a bridge. Yo can fall from above. But the best way of falling, is falling in love!
~ Unknown
Decisions are hard to make, when you don't have a choice, life is hard to live, when you are suffering inside, the future is hard to see, when you are falling behind, it's hard to be positive, when you are judged, it's hard to be true, when you were never loved.
~ Unknown
I knew I was falling the moment I saw you; I never knew love could take you on so many adventures until I met you. Being in love is showing me another side of life that I never knew. I am having the time of my life being in love with you. I LOVE YOU.
~ Unknown
Who knew I'd ever fall in love again? I never thought I'd see this day. I guess my heart has learned to forgive and the thoughts of him are fading away. You don't know how you make me feel. Every word you say brings a smile to my heart. You're my everything and I love you so much. I hope that we never fall apart.
~ Unknown
We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?
~ Madonna
Such I created all th' Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood & them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not
~ John Milton
Nor was his name unheard or unador'd In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o're the Chrystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lemnos th' Ægean Ile: thus they relate, Erring...
~ John Milton
When we are overtaken with a sin, we sometimes fail to analyze how we fell. This is to our great disadvantage. We repent of the sin, but we do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it.
~ John Owen
like an ink drop falling into a coal cellar.
~ John Sandford
I guess the difference is that dampness comes down but dankness rises up out of rot and fermentation.
~ John Steinbeck
The houses were vacant, and a vacant house falls quickly apart.
~ John Steinbeck
I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.
~ John Zakour
My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn't that bad (I have a strong heart), it's the sudden stops that are painful. Believe me — I experienced it once.
~ John Zakour
It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
~ Kim Edwards
I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
~ George Carlin