Quotes About Fall

on a bright fall day, I had what I believed at the time to be an apprehension of death. It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow leaves falling (but from what? were there even trees on West Fifty-seventh Street?), a shower of gold, spangled, very fast, a falling of the bright.

And when you fall from that parapet,the sound you'll be hearing as you go down will be me,laughing my head off.

And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been if he and I had been capable of trusting each other for a change. And so we hunted, and sang, and laughed, and told heavily edited stories of the good old days, while each of us watched the other and wondered when the knife would fall.

Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

I don't want to keep waiting around for you to call...I just want to stop caring, break down & forget it all...how did I fall in love with you?

Deena, you were so drunk that you fell. don't give anybody advice about being waisted.

Pride comes before a fall.

Love is a cycle of catch and fall; and slip and break. So choose the person who will catch and never let you break.

If a boy sweeps you off your feet, be careful because he's in the perfect position to drop you on your ass.

A man is proud until he falls.

This was the problem with a walk down memory lane. It was almost always foggy, and one was likely to trip and fall.

This was the problem with a walk down memory lane. It was almost always foggy, and one was likely to trip and fall. But

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall." "...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury...

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

I don't know how much we will rise, I say stoutly. And I have no fear of falling. He looks at me. You are ambitious to rise? We are all on fortune's wheel, I say. Without a doubt we will rise. We may fall. But still I have no fear of it.

Daily I walk a high wire, always in danger of losing my balance. The essence of my life is supernatural, which I must respect if I am to make the best use of my gift. Yet I live in the rational world and am subject to its laws. The temptation is to be guided entirely by impulses of an otherworldly origin-but in this world a long fall will always end in a hard impact.

Sudden falls can come to societies that know too little history or that have furnished their minds with easy one-note propaganda in place of the true complexity and terrible beauty of the storied past.

a long fall from thirty or forty stories, a short span of seconds

It ain't a lie that's gonna put me in the pit with Al Capone, but it's one step on a slippery slope I been down before.

Believe me, you still have a long way to fall, a very long way.

The vision has passed, but he feels as though he is standing above a void, with nothing to support him, that his fall is about to begin, that he'll shatter his bones on the bloody rack and ruin below.