Quotes About Fall

Next thing she knows she's lying flat on her back and three grizzled Mexicans are standing over her, trying

During my time at Essex county fire and rescue service, barely a shift went by without receiving a call from an elderly person who had fallen in their home, or from their concerned neighbour or carer.

Night doesn't fall, but rather, all the disregarded shadows of a day flock like blackbirds, and suddenly rise. — Stuart Dybek, from "Ravenswood," Alaska Quarterly Review , Fall & Winter 2012

the night fell over me, and for a moment I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin

He felt that they were still recovering from his fall themselves, treating him as a fragile piece of china which, since it had magically survived without breakage, should be set very carefully on a shelf and not moved for a special conciliatory length of time.

I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall – like seeking love in a whorehouse.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

one tower falls the other follows do chickens come home to roost? enormity crashes dazed disbelief (chickens won't roost here again pigeons either)

La opinión pública, pensó Mallarino. La caída en desgracia. ¿De dónde saldrían esas fórmulas? ¿Quién las habría inventado, quién habría sido el primero en usarlas?

Lamento que este usted subido en la atalaya de sus propias convicciones. Desde ahí la caída es mortal de necesidad.

She obviously wasn't going fast enough, because he picked her up and dropped her out the window himself, where she landed in Dunford's waiting arms. "You're here too?" she asked weakly. "If I were you, I'd be grateful for my presence. Ashbourne is nearly ready to explode.

she decided to watch the leaves on the tree across the way. How many would fall off in such a strong wind? ... She now knew why people made such a fuss about weddings. It was to keep the bride's mind occupied, lest she fall into strange mental chasms.

The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.

It's always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you're just going to fall over or something.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

I did not want to see how careless this whole system is for so many, how easy it is to fall through the cracks.

Here we are! Shooting stars. Shooting stars? They burn. Fleeting glimpse. We become human as we fall.

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful! We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earth or we climb to the knife edge of the snow with the voices of the dead dahlias. But forgetfulness does not exist, dreams do not exist; flesh exists. Kisses tie our mouths in a thicket of new veins, and whoever his pain pains will feel that pain forever and whoever is afraid of death will carry it on his shoulders.

Initium Adán y Eva. La serpiente partió el espejo en mil pedazos, y la manzana fue la piedra.

Seamus Deane has defined the Wake as the fall of man into language—designating both the writer's and the reader's fall.16 As an elaboration of this, we may add that one of the Wakean falls is the fall of the human, or the idea of the human, under language and culture, under their proliferating representations.

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And hell win the whole thing fore he enters the ring Theres no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand then you know where to land And if you fall it wont matter cuz youll know that youre right.

It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understand. Someone had said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

For a tiny instant Faith wondered whether it would benefit the doctor's investigation if he experienced a cliff fall first-hand.