Top 100 Fall Sky Quotes
#1. And a final, anxious part - an ever-growing part - was occupied with the color of the fall sky, the leaves on the ground, the sense that time was passing without being replaced, that it was running out and spooling to the end.
Maggie Stiefvater
#2. The way of love is not / a subtle argument. / The door there is devastation. / Birds make great sky-circles / of their freedom. / How do they learn it? / They fall, and falling, / they're given wings.
Rumi
#3. The sky's not for us.
We weren't meant to fly. All we can do is try not to fall.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#4. Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it. If you were to recite even a single page in the open air, birds would fall out of the sky and dogs drop dead.
Clive James
#5. I only work in relation to what the work is about. Yes, of course, if the world's coming to an end I would basically try to get out of the way when the sky falls.
Lawrence Weiner
#6. Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die
Nick Burd
#7. Everything started the night I saw the burning man fall from the sky.
Gwen Hayes
#8. The way my luck is at the moment," said Polly, "I probably will get a tiny bit of money back, and as I leave the bank after picking it up, a bolt of lightning will come out of the sky and set it on fire. Then a piano will fall on my head and knock me down a manhole.
Jenny Colgan
#9. I'm mortal. I could die any day." Brandon had almost killed her. Her parents had died young. Her grandfather would have died yesterday. "I'm Warrick Voclain. And you will stay by my side until the stars fall from the sky.
Erin Kellison
#10. And the mountains may rise and fall, and the sun might wither away, and the sea may claim the land and swallow the sky. But you will always be mine. And the stars might fall from the heavens, and night might cloak the earth, but until darkness dies, I will always be yours.
Laura Thalassa
#11. I rise from the moist crevice of thought,
I beat on the shores of her holy body,
I fall from the sky in silver sheets of sadness.
Rise onto me my precious sun.
A.P. Sweet
#12. Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.
Jeff Tweedy
#13. Greet the sky and live, blossom! ... Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs live forever. I lift them in offering; I, a singer. I cast them to the wind, I spill them. The flowers become gold, they come to dwell inside the palace of eternity.
Jacqueline Carey
#14. The speckled sky is dim with snow,
The light flakes falter and fall slow;
Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,
Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in
By flickering curtains gray and thin.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#15. The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.
Cormac McCarthy
#16. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.
Julie Gregory
#17. We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back, a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?
Philip K. Dick
#18. 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
#19. Time passes, like clouds in the sky. Weeks and months go by as if they were a single day. Summer fades to fall, winter yields to spring, different minutes of the same hour.
Martel, Yann
#20. We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly
as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth
the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives
John Irving
#22. Glad that I live am I;
That the sky is blue;
Glad for the country lanes,
And the fall of dew.
Lizette Woodworth Reese
#23. But I did not fail to note: the sky does not fall if you choose to let down your hair.
Anonymous
#24. There." She tossed her hair back while he stared at her. "The sky did not fall, the world did not end, neither of us was struck by lightning or beamed straight to hell. I'm not your damn
sister, Delaney. That ought to make it clear.
Nora Roberts
#25. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day.
H.P. Lovecraft
#26. But the nice man had cold eyes. When interacting with his fascinated lady-harem, they had been blue. But when he turned his attention to me - however briefly - I could have sworn that they turned gray, the color of water beneath a sky from which snow will soon fall.
Stephen King
#27. They won't let any part of him fall to the ground," says Raffe in a quiet voice. "His brothers will keep him from falling."
In the distance, the Watchers weave a beautiful dance in the dawn sky beneath Beliel's shower of fire.
Susan Ee
#28. I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.
Jess Rothenberg
#29. A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless ...
William Wordsworth
#30. Our heads, the little globes which hold the midnight sky and the shining, invisible universes of thought, have been taken about as much for granted as the growth of a yellow pumpkin in the fall.
Loren Eiseley
#31. Words fall out of the sky like leaves, girl. Grab a couple and write 'em down.
Sharon M. Draper
#32. Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.
Rich Mullins
#33. You're the prettiest thing I've seen fall from the sky today.
Shaun Hick
#34. Very near Auch, Lectoure, and Mirande, great fire will fall from the sky for three nights. A most stupendous and astonishing event will occur. Very soon afterwards, the earth will tremble.
Nostradamus
#35. Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high ... ' Long live Scanderbeg.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#36. That falls into the category of advice that sounds helpful but actually makes no freaking sense.
Shannon Messenger
#37. So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?
Thom Yorke
#38. We're the only ones left from those withered days. The last two leaves still clinging to the branch waiting to fall. Waiting for the wind to severe us into the sky.
Tan Twan Eng
#39. Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky?
Was there a father?
Or have the planets cut holes in their nets
and let our childhood out,
or are we the dolls themselves,
born but never fed?
Anne Sexton
#40. There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.
Chinelo Okparanta
#41. He cast his eyes upwards and stood amazed. The snow had ceased to fall, and now, as if by a miracle, he saw above his head the clear black sky of the northern winter, decorated with the sumptuous fires of the stars. It was a canopy fit for the resplendent purity of the snows.
Joseph Conrad
#42. They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.
Chris Cleave
#43. Fat raindrops are starting to fall and no doubt it's only a matter of time before the sky is throwing buckets of water in my face.
Penelope Fletcher
#44. Next to me, pressed against the wall of the old fort, Annabeth peered into the rain, waiting for magical teenagers to fall out of the sky.
Rick Riordan
#45. There's nothing in this world that is ever truly decided. Birds sometimes fall out of the sky, and sometimes it snows in April. Everything is uncertain, nothing is 'unnatural.
Kouhei Kadono
#46. One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
Thomas Merton
#47. One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
Bruce Cockburn
#48. The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#49. In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.
Henry David Thoreau
#50. Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
Robert A. Heinlein
#51. And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.
John Buchan
#52. Birds fly in the sky without the fear of fall. We too must have the COURAGE to take Risks and grow tall.-RVM
R.v.m.
#53. I've recently begun to believe that love is synonymous with madness. It can't possibly be an act of sanity. It is restless and always in pursuit. It will fall from the sky to have what it wants.
Lauren DeStefano
#54. According to them, when you think a dark or pessimistic thought, it produces a cloud in the sky. If enough people are thinking gloomy thoughts at once, then rain will begin to fall. That
Paul Auster
#55. There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart.
Rumi
#56. Soon all the leaves would fall, leaving this spot bare and brown. I felt like I was looking at the pinnacle of a particularly dazzling firework as it filled the night sky, just before it lost its shape and faded into darkness.
Penny Reid
#57. I'm going to love him until the stars fall out of the sky.
Sarah Black
#58. The signifieds butt-heads with the signifiers
and we all fall down slackjawed to marvel at words
while across the sky sheet impossible birds
in a steady illiterate movement homewards.
Joanna Newsom
#59. The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards.
Steven Wright
#60. I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens
Stop the rain.
I'm gonna
Love you
Till the stars
Fall from the sky
For you and I
Jim Morrison
#61. But in the mouth of Mother Nature's fury, Ethan's totally at ease, and I wonder if it's because he's studied weather for years, or because he figured out a long time ago that the things that really hurt you don't usually fall from the sky.
Lara Zielin
#62. I don't think there are enough stars in the sky to count how many times a day I fall in love with you all over again.
Jewel E. Ann
#63. If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
Laurie Anderson
#64. I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, I'm not an idiot. I don't live in a magical bubble where orgasms fall from the sky and land in a woman's bed every time she has sex. I know they fake it sometimes.
Elle Kennedy
#65. Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.
Stefan Bachmann
#66. When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#67. The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.
Samuel Beckett
#68. Atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the final destination for those who think ... you will be pleased to discover that the sky does not fall down on your head ... if you still want to pray, you can (the success rate of your prayers is unlikely to change).
Guy P. Harrison
#69. And if it's around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems Halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bed-sheets around corners.
Ray Bradbury
#70. I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.
Tinashe
#71. In your life, did you know enthusiasm?' If the answer is yes you enter the sky. If no, you fall to burn in the pit.
Ray Bradbury
#72. Don't worry, even if you fall over! It's all right. You can just pick yourself up again!
When you fall over, make the most of the chance to look up and see the sky.
You will see the blue sky spreading endlessly above you and smiling down.
Aya, you are alive!
Aya Kito
#73. It's like you have a special skill when it comes to finding condoms. Seriously. They must fall out of the sky whenever you're around.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#74. Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.
Mary Schiavo
#75. Maybe I had picked a hole in the sky and the universe was all about to fall in on me.
Kami Garcia
#76. Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.
Cat Stevens
#77. Don't always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it'll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud.
Yasmin
#78. The first shot causes warm rain to fall on Diana's arms from the sky. The second plants a mirrored jewel in the left temporal lobe of her brain ... a place she could have named on a quiz but which now seems to be the place where the future is imagined, the place where what would have been is.
Laura Kasischke
#79. Power is a tricky thing, mija. It can lift you up high on its wings and up into the sky where you feel invincible. But sometimes you forget the bigger thing that makes you fly. Without God, without love, you fall. You stop being grateful and humble, and you fall. pg. 230
Laura Resau
#80. What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. When heroes fall from the sky, many more will learn to fly.
Tony Meloto
#82. I can already tell he isn't the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He's the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me.
Colleen Hoover
#83. I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
Allen Neuharth
#84. Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
Joni Mitchell
#85. He took a deep breath. 'To marry me,' he said quietly. It was easier than he thought. Icarus did not fall from the sky; the ground did not open; the earth did not wobble on its trajectory.
Alexander McCall Smith
#86. I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.
Barbara Lewis
#87. Morpheus turns his face to the sky. "I'm afraid you're the one who's mistaken, if you think I'm going to let Wonderland fall to rot so you can play 'pin the male on the virgin' with your mortal toy.
A.G. Howard
#88. He listen something in my voice because he look up immediately. His eyes as blue as July sky. His long yellow hair fall like sunshine on his forehead and my finger burn from not touching it.
Thrity Umrigar
#89. I did not expect to fall in love with this world, not so quickly, but with the blueness of the sky and the shimmer of the sun on the lake behind me, I am spellbound.
C.M. Stunich
#90. I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.
James Nicoll
#91. Walking's a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.
Kenneth Eade
#92. October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.
Henry David Thoreau
#93. The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.
Rajneesh
#94. If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me ... I'm alive.
Aya Kito
#95. There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?
Erin Hanson
#97. I know the stars by heart,
the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have
our great blazing kings of the sky, I know them, when they rise and when the fall ...
Aeschylus
#98. I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a kind of sky, so that when we die, when we die, we fall and sink into the sky.
Jose Luis Peixoto
#99. The stars looked like nail heads in the sky
pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.
Colum McCann
#100. The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
W. H. Auden
