Fall Away Quotes

#1. The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree.

Lauren Willig

#2. All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#4. You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. She had a fleeting sense of his God out there somewhere, like the sea itself, invisible and dangerous, a vastness wrapped in darkness, just a long fall away.

Tim Farrington

#6. We do fall away from faith. God's grace gives us strength to rise again.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. So now you can let go, my darling ... Let go ... Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes ... Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.

Aldous Huxley

#8. Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Albrecht Durer

#9. Autumn felt like the whole world was browned and roasted until it was so tender it was about to fall away from the bone.

Sarah Addison Allen

#10. He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

Alexandra Bracken

#11. Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.

Fulton J. Sheen

#12. All of the grace with which he moved and lived, all of his elegance and composure would fall away like the thinnest, gossamer-like film, to reveal the manic beast within.

Lynn Kelling

#13. This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

Jack Vance

#14. It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Bob Goff

#15. God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and the fire of the Almighty, until the chains of self-centered desires fall away from the personality, and the love of Christ become the deepest hunger of the inner life.

C. John Miller

#16. We need to remember not to give the devil a chance and fall away from God's grace

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Write your sins on apples still hanging on the tree; when they fall away so do your burdens (There

Jandy Nelson

#18. I'm trying to get away from roles. I used to identify myself strictly in terms of my role, but when your roles fall away, part of you falls with them.

Maria Shriver

#19. Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own.

Alan Bradley

#20. Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

Mike Brearley

#21. It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

Patti Smith

#22. The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.

Dennis Bergkamp

#23. When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

Kamal Ravikant

#24. The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#25. On the flip side, those who profess salvation but later fall away, demonstrate that their profession was never genuine (1 John 2:19).

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#26. Kevin Garnett did the classic hold me back but fall away at the same time.

Jemele Hill

#27. Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.

Marianne Williamson

#28. Any situation, circumstance or challenge is just a distraction and as you remain true to your goals and trust in God they will fall away.

Michele Woolley

#29. This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

Origen

#30. I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

Cassandra Clare

#31. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Oscar Wilde

#32. We are friends for life. When we're together the years fall away. Isn't that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you've come?

Judy Blume

#33. All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important." For

Jon Vroman

#34. As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#35. That's how he feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.

Anthony Doerr

#36. My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

Olympia Dukakis

#37. If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

Angelina Love

#38. Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

J.C. Ryle

#39. In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#40. I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors.

Sarah McLachlan

#41. You can't fall away from something if you were never there in the first place. It's the difference between jumping off a cliff and passing out where you stand.

Sloane Crosley

#42. Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.

Marianne Williamson

#43. The false burdens fall away. We come into rhythm with ourselves. Our clay shape gradually learns to walk beautifully on this magnificent earth. A

John O'Donohue

#44. All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#45. As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life.

Benjamin Kunkel

#46. But the winners are those who know that when things get really hard and others start to fall away, that is the time to dig deep and give that little bit extra.

Bear Grylls

#47. But the stars that marked our starting fall away.
We must go deeper into greater pain,
for it is not permitted that we stay.

Dante Alighieri

#48. you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you.

AVA.

#49. put my hand to his chest, over his heart. I can feel it beating. I let my hand fall away. His heart is mine, just mine. I believe it now. Mine to protect and care for, mine to break. So

Jenny Han

#50. So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#51. But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.

Jennifer Donnelly

#52. Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

Khaled Hosseini

#53. Our eyes meet and hold, and the world starts to fall away, time does, years rolling up like rugs, until everything that's happened unhappens, and for a moment, it's us again, more one than two.

Jandy Nelson

#54. When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free

Sue Augustine

#55. Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

J.I. Packer

#56. Love was forever, love was not lost when a life was; love did not fall away or weaken a person. Love was strong and people were stronger because of it; love continued, in all forms, in every way, until the end of time and even after that.

Lindy Zart

#57. if you run away your problems will run after you. Be undisturbed by a situation, and it will fall away of its own weight.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#58. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. The

Anthony Doerr

#59. Going Home
Take a step towards home.

It is always the most simple
and
direct path.

Let the questions fall away.

The answers don't matter.

Just carry what you are given
and start walking.

Shelley Richardson

#60. Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.

Donald Curtis

#61. when you love someone, their differences fall away. I don't look at him and see anything but him, and how sweet he is.

Stacey Wallace Benefiel

#62. This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.

William Shakespeare

#63. Dance used to do that for me too: a place where there was nothing to do but be me and let everything else fall away. For a lot of the girls on the team, it was all about the performance, but for me, I think it was always about communication.

Emily Henry

#64. Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

Joseph Conrad

#65. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.
But my innocence is gone forever.

Paullina Simons

#66. If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.

R.C. Sproul

#67. I talk shit about everybody and then sulk when they don't call me, my friends fall away like I've dropped them out of an airplane, my ex-boyfriend thinks I'm Hitler when he sees me.

Daniel Handler

#68. It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

Saad Hariri

#69. We are all seeking fulfillment while living at the mercy of changing experience. Whatever we acquire in life gets dispersed. Our bodies age. Our relationships fall away. Even the most intense pleasures last only a few moments. And every morning, we are chased out of bed by our thoughts.

Sam Harris

#70. This is the difference time creates
We bleed our misbehavior
And in silent prayer, repent
It is only necessary that we fall away again
Into love

Michele L. Rivera

#71. One night, Tess finds me sobbing during the health segment of the evening news. Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest fall away over time, and she can't understand how sadly hopeful that is. To me, it means that the human heart has the capacity to heal itself.

Koren Zailckas

#72. When you've become strong enough and developed enough, the teacher will fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#73. To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from - what kind of family brought us into this world,' Josie said softly. 'We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.

Sharon Shinn

#74. Dance allows confidence to grow and inhibitions to fall away, and I pride myself on building people's confidence.

Andrew Stone

#75. I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as you know it can simply fall away.

Ally Carter

#76. Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

Yanni

#77. It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Lynn Johnston

#78. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Oscar Wilde

#79. Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

Bryant McGill

#80. When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.

Joseph Henry Shorthouse

#81. And if the Son has set us free Then we must be, free indeed Let the chains fall away, starting today. Everything has changed I'm finally free ...

Nichole Nordeman

#82. A darkened theater. Final whispers. Black. The projector streams through. The picture surrounds. I fall away. You reach me.

Jolene Stockman

#83. I felt something fall away inside. Some floor, and from beneath it boiled up something dark, black and bitter, craving vengeance.

Kevin Emerson

#84. Praise Him early, praise Him late, for our high and holy state; born, baptized, redeem'd forever, nought but sin our souls can sever from the Saviour who has bought us, from the Spirit who has taught us. Lord! renew us day by day, never let us fall away.

Cecil Frances Alexander

#85. The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches.

Veronica Roth

#86. Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#87. As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#88. I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think.

Morag Joss

#89. When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#90. In the course of your journey it is most likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of

Ram Dass

#91. Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Bryant McGill

#92. While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.

Frederick Lenz

#93. He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.

Casey Stengel

#94. I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.

Jessi Kirby

#95. Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

Ariel Gore

#96. Against a broken heart, even absurdity falters.
Because words fall away.
A dialogue of silence.
That deafens.

Steven Erikson

#97. My innocence is not lost - it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

Jewel

#98. ... and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.

David Nicholls

#99. How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

Joseph Addison

#100. There is no separation between mind and body ... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

Deepak Chopra