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Quotes About Fall

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
~ John Donne
Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.
~ Rajneesh
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
~ Cyril Connolly
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.
~ Helen Rowland
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
~ Saint Augustine
If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property
~ Theobald of Bec
...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.
~ Adolf Hitler
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
~ Arthur Middleton
Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.
~ Emily Blunt
It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?
~ Milton Resnick
Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
~ Robert Herrick
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
~ John Webster
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
~ Fareed Zakaria
She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.
~ Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.
~ Les Dawson
In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.
~ William Shakespeare
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
~ Walter Lang
Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
~ William Shakespeare
In the fall nature informs us of its artistic side. It again confirms the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.
~ Brent M. Jones