Quotes About Falling

Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.

I worked on a weekly one-hour show live from Los Angeles called 'The Dixie Boat Show.' We only had one camera, so there was a lot of panning because it was always on, and anything that went wrong, from actors fluffing their lines to sets falling down in mid-scene, you let it go by.

2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded. The myth of an America embracing the leftist social agenda collapsed.

so that the ship was falling toward the sun; and then he swung the nose inward and began to increase velocity

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

Falling does not cover the speed and abruptness of being thrown from less than ten feet high.

Idle to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of mind, of thoughts; it is the simultaneous firing of two spirits engaged in the autonomous act of growing up.

I'm falling, but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.

Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I'm afraid of landing. [He's laughing, and I'm smiling.] Stupid idiot smile, don't you know what comes next?

As she fell, she was reminded of that line from one of Douglas Adams' books, where he described flying as the ability to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Valkyrie rushed towards the ground, and missed splendidly.

Okay." I smiled, although I was not doing okay at all. My calm exterior was an act. Inside, I was falling apart.

There is a gap in "world pain" through which the singular falls continually and forever; a body falling in observable space, deprived of the privacy of disappearance; as if privacy, moving relentlessly away, by the very sustaining power of its withdrawal kept the body eternally moving downward, but in one place, and perpetually before the eye.

Falling and flying are near identical sensations, in all but one final detail.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.

I can already feel myself falling hard, something I've been known to do... All because she smiled at me. But it was a damn good smile. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days. Especially when you're me.

I can already feel myself falling hard, something I've been known to do... All because she smiled at me. But it was a damn good one. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days.

I didn't fall for you, you tripped me!

The car makes a clicking sound as it moves across the wooden slats. Then there is nothing beneath us and we fall. The windows fill with water, mud, leaves. The car floats.

This morning Margot talked about the difference between falling and floating. With practice, she says, one may learn to accept the feeling of groundlessness without existential fear. This is akin to the way an experienced parachutist or astronaut might enjoy the wide view from above even as he hurtles through space. She gave us a formula: suffering = pain + resistance.

Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.

I will tell you it simply: he felt he was falling. He felt he fell through a succession of wells, of holes, of chasms, and that I was there at windows, and we would be together for a moment as he fell by. Then I would rush to the next window , down and down, and he would fall past, and I would see him again.

Love'? What do you know about love?" "It's at the heart of every story," Rollo said with authority. "If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.

So we've pulled the chute, and we're drifting, riding the sky. It's just you and me. You can hear me now that we're falling like this, remember? I tell you that I don't want this to end. I don't want to land and reach the real world, because I like our world up here better.