Top 57 Quotes About Fainting
#1. And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#2. Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.
Patricia C. Wrede
#3. Clary didn't ask what that was. She was busy trying not to fall over. The ground was heaving up and down under her feet. "Jace," she said, and crumpled into him. He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it every day. Maybe he did.
Cassandra Clare
#4. Right now he was having a hell of a time keeping the bear under control. He wanted to roar and tear Massimo limb from limb. He wanted to toss his lifeless body away from Cassie. "Stop the growling, Talen," Gerri snapped. "You scared her into fainting. There's something you don't see every day.
Milly Taiden
#5. And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.
Gerald Massey
#6. Fainting is for preteen girls and those really weird goats. I do not faint!
Melissa F. Olson
#7. Fainting wasn't nothing that they shouldn't worry about.
C.L.Stone
#8. I told him my own story, from locket to fainting. But I left out the part about how I was supposed to be Criminy's magic mail-order bride.
Delilah S. Dawson
#9. Dear refuge of my weary soul,
On thee, when sorrows rise,
On thee, when waves of trouble roll,
My fainting hope relies.
Anne Steele
#10. He had never fainted in his life, and while he knew it was this whole life-mate, mind-blowing-sex business, it was still damned demoralizing to be fainting like a breathless virgin at the end of every encounter.
Lynsay Sands
#11. Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes
pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death
there stood Henry Jekyll!
Robert Louis Stevenson
#14. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
Ramana Maharshi
#15. If thou art worn and hard beset,
With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget;
If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills! No tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#16. My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.
Clara Barton
#17. Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)
Jean Plaidy
#18. Jacky, who had read and admired Mary Wollstonecraft, and despised the fashion of fluttery helplessness in women, felt, to her own annoyance, close to fainting.
Tim Powers
#19. People who use the number of friends they have on Facebook as a metric of their social standing are fooling themselves. You can share videos of fainting goats with hundreds of acquaintances and thousands of followers, but you can trust a secret only with a handful of true friends.
David McRaney
#20. If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.
Moncure D. Conway
#21. MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
Ambrose Bierce
#22. The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
Oswald Chambers
#23. River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#24. The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.
Terry Pratchett
#25. Doctors believe that straining too much or too often on the toilet can also seriously increase the risk of varicose veins, a stroke, or defecation syncope - fainting on the toilet.
Giulia Enders
#26. I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
John Green
#27. What is the point of fainting into a man's arms if you are not conscious to enjoy it?
Marie Silk
#28. Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.
Lynn Freed
#29. He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.
Cassandra Clare
#30. Her green eyes flutter all the way open, and she looks amused. It pricks his ego slightly. After that kiss, shouldn't she be fainting at his feet? But she's grinning.
Cassandra Clare
#31. A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.
Thomas Brooks
#32. My beloved Laura" (said she to me a few Hours before she died) "take warning from my unhappy End ... Beware of fainting-fits ... Beware of swoons, Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint - ".
Jane Austen
#33. VI. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
#34. Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.
Francis Beaumont
#35. His face was knotted with rage. He felt like fainting but couldn't remember the proper way to fall.
Woody Allen
#36. She was nearly fainting: indeed, she wished she could really faint, but faints don't come for the asking.
C.S. Lewis
#37. I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself.
Karen Marie Moning
#38. There's a YouTube video of these two kittens that just fall over and pass out. My blood sugar's crazy, so I would pass out sometimes, like the fainting kittens.
Kelsea Ballerini
#39. What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee.
Robert Morgan
#40. She wondered whimsically if he wore those spectacles in a vain attempt to keep ladies from fainting at his feet.
Amanda McCabe
#41. Of the poor, fainting soul, tired of looking to humanity only to be betrayed and forgotten, Christ says, "Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me" (Isaiah 27:5).
Ellen G. White
#42. When a dead man knocks on the car window, I think fainting is a reasonable response.
Marjorie F. Baldwin
#43. I'm beginning to feel that I've discovered something worth knowing. There's a way out of places you want to leave, but can't. Fainting is like stepping sideways, out of your own body, out of time or into another time. When you wake up it's later. Time has gone on without you.
Margaret Atwood
#44. Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,
a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#45. Lips unused to thee, Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee, Reaching late his flower, Round her chamber hums, Counts his nectars - enters, And is lost in balms!
Emily Dickinson
#46. We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one.
Emilie Autumn
#47. If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.
Ernest Bevin
#49. A life of faith is not a life of one glorious mountaintop experience after another, like soaring on eagles' wings, but is a life of day-in and day-out consistency; a life of walking without fainting (see Isaiah 40:31).
Oswald Chambers
#50. The Demon curled its lips back, revealing a double row of needle-sharp teeth.
I considered changing my chosen course of action; I considered fainting.
Robert Asprin
#51. The floor scooped me up where I stood, and I blinked as it hit me
M. Beth Bloom
#52. He was like one who had half fainted, and could neither recover nor complete the swoon.
Thomas Hardy
#54. There was a very slight lilt to it, too, attesting to a childhood spent far from Lincolnshire, and Grace felt herself sway, as if she could fall forward, lightly, softly, and land somewhere else. Far, far from here.
Julia Quinn
#55. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#56. Perhaps you should put your head down. I knew this was the thing to do, although I've never fainted and I don't intend to.
Franny Billingsley
#57. Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns.
He Swooned"
I know he swooned," Jade replied.
Julie Garwood
