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Falling Quotes (page 94)

I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they’re being kind. I didn’t fall – I dove. Sue Monk Kidd
I waver, continually fly to the summit of the mountain, but cannot stay up there for more than a moment. Others waver too, but in lower regions, with greater strength; if they are in danger of falling, they are caught up by the kinsman who walks beside them for that purpose. But I waver on the heights; it is not death, alas, but the eternal torments of dying. Franz Kafka
My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in. Suzanne Collins
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world. Noam Chomsky
It was Begbie who ensured he could never return. He had done what he wanted to do. He could now never go back to Leith, to Edinburgh, even to Scotland, ever again. There, he could not be anything other than he was. Now, free from them all, for good, he could be what he wanted to be. He'd stand or fall alone. This thought both terrified and excited him as he contemplated life in Amsterdam. Irvine Welsh
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of..."
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. Henry David Thoreau
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall..."
I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may. Stephenie Meyer
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love."
Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love. Chuck Palahniuk
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. F. Scott Fitzgerald
will you remember this day Gogol?'his father asked , turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head . 'How long do I have to remember it' . Over the rise and fall of the wind , he could hear his father's laughter.He was standing there , waiting for Gogol to catch up , putting out a hand as Gogol drew near. 'Try to remember it always' he once Gogol had reached him , leading him slowly back towards the breakwater , to where his mother and Sonia stood... Jhumpa Lahiri
If you're lost you can look and you will find me. Time after time. If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting. Time after time Cyndi Lauper
Doug Coupland quote: "I wondered what it was to pray, because it was something I..."
I wondered what it was to pray, because it was something I have never learned to do, and all I remember is falling. Doug Coupland
Salman Rushdie quote: "Is birth always a fall?"
Is birth always a fall? Salman Rushdie
A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash. Boris Pasternak
In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight. Marcus Aurelius

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