Quotes About Fall

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:By that sin fell the angels.

Great Caesar fell.O! what a fall was there, my countrymen;Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.

In the most high and palmy state of Rome,A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted deadDid squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

They decided that come the fall of 1963, Gram would be packed off as a full-time boarding student to the same institution he'd attended years earlier, the Bolles School in Jacksonville.

My skull connects with a hard, flat thing I think is the wet asphalt pavement of the parking lot, but turns out to be a bolt of greasy lightning that knocks me off a high wall into a deep, wet place that covers me up tight under a blue-black blanket of blankness…

But just before Atala fell, our society had turned aggressive, warlike. We had become dominated by our males." She angled her head. "We would have been better off following the Crones. Perhaps it is time to do so again.

The Empire is falling. The barbarians are at the gate. Even the mightiest civilizations can vanish. When its empire fell, Rome turned into a pathetic backwater, full of ruins, with sheep wandering through it, munching on the overgrown grass. All the glory was gone. Will the same fate befall Los Angeles and Manhattan? Will they be overrun by wild dogs, munching on the bones of dead Influencers and bankers? One can hope!

There was a sound like a garbage bag of pudding dropped off a tall building onto a sidewalk.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Then don't fall." He caught her close and offered a teasing smile. "Trip a little and I'll catch you.

The born again nihilist has nothing to blame for their fall

I was angry, you know. The kind of angry that makes you feel dangerous. Under my feet, the earth shook. I imagined how it would look when everything began to fall.

La plus grande chute est celle qu'on fait du haut de l'innocence.

There are galaxies within the human mind, and madness wants to risk everything for the daring flight, reckless and beautiful and crazed. Everyone knows Icarus fell. But I love him for the fact that he dared to fly. Mania unfurls the invitation to fly too high, too near the sun, which will melt the wax of the mind, and the fall will be terrible.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Acapulco always had a heart for extravagance, so when at last she made her fall from grace, she did so with all the spectacular pageantry the world had come to expect of her. The cartels painted the town red.

We listen to the inexhaustible chant of the sea within us, as it rises and falls in our heads, like the approach and retreat of the strange desire we have for heaven, for love, and all that we cannot touch with our hands.

You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.

step step step no no no plop plop plop in i go

He's a man who measures words as if he had only a few given to him by Fate; too generous a syllable from his lips, and he might fall over dead.

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.

All creatures, with two exceptions that we know of, have willingly taken the places appointed to them. The Bible speaks of angels who rebelled and therefore were cast down out of heaven, and of the fall of man.