Top 100 Quotes About Falling Off
#1. How can it be that this town is so full of people they're falling off the pavements and yet only in dreams am I in someone's arms?
Anjum Hasan
#2. It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me.
Serena Grey
#3. I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.
Bernie Sanders
#4. I was going, going, gone-like falling off the side of a cliff in the movies-until I managed to find a foothold and stop myself. But who knew how long it would last? That bit of rock or vine always gives out, doesn't it? The only question was when.
Stacey Kade
#5. We've stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness.
Ted Dekker
#6. It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.
Tim O'Brien
#7. A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee
not playing soccer, not playing football
but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.
Judith Viorst
#9. We got no food, we got no jobs, our pets heads are falling off!
Lloyd
#10. If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Lance Armstrong
#11. The thing with love is, you cannot choose who you fall for. Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person. Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there's no switch to turn off your heart.
J.C. Reed
#12. I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.
Kent Haruf
#13. You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#14. It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.
Jonah Lomu
#15. I mean, before I innocently knocked him off Sarah's bed and he, all on his own, injured himself by not falling to the floor properly.
Chelsea M. Campbell
#16. I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
Doug Aitken
#17. It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.
Gilbert Hernandez
#18. Everything about this felt right, and I wondered what had happened to me--that I was somehow falling for this man who looked like he stepped off a catwalk, who had demons and sad eyes and kissed like an angel.
Megan Erickson
#19. Falling in love could be like falling off a cliff, no water below but plenty of rocks.
Dean Koontz
#20. Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.
Evel Knievel
#21. Echoing off the tile walls, the sizzle-splash of the falling water sounded like the hissing of serpents and the brittle laughter of strange children.
Dean Koontz
#22. Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication ... which includes laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff
#23. Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.
Jon Jones
#24. Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.
Cathleen Schine
#25. I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.
Chuck Klosterman
#26. I didn't fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I'd fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I'd vowed never to do again.
I chose to love James.
Megan Hart
#27. -the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.
David Foster Wallace
#28. Archdruid used to say. "Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about falling on you." Then he threw a pissed-off rooster at me. I had
Kevin Hearne
#29. I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
Tom Berenger
#30. Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster
Mario Puzo
#31. The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
Don McLean
#32. Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and hard like a penguin who hasn't bought the whole flightless scenario.
Jennifer Rardin
#34. For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.
Chuck Palahniuk
#35. When you jump off a cliff, falling can look a whole lot like flying, for a while anyway.
Elan Mastai
#36. It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down.
Dorothy Garlock
#37. Her body, the nucleic force of the furious scribble, was absolutely out of control: slipping and falling and flaking off, gaining much, losing little.
Ainslie Hogarth
#38. You know how sometimes when you're drifting off to sleep you feel that jolt, like you were falling and caught yourself at the last second? It's nothing to be concerned about, it's usually just the parasite adjusting its grip.
David Wong
#39. I felt his hand go to my cheek and wipe the tear that i hadn't realize was falling from eyes. I looked him in the eyes so he could see the hurt in min, and swiped his hand off.
P.L. Jenkins
#40. Ash shook his head, but I saw the shadow of a smirk on his face. "You know I'm probably going to kill you soon, right?" he muttered as we headed off into the trees.
"Old news, ice-boy." I chuckled, falling into step beside him. "And you know I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Julie Kagawa
#41. Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.
Cinda Williams Chima
#42. I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.
Russell Crowe
#43. Alma had been falling in love with a crazy terrier that thought "stay" mean to take off like a rocket. Gaby knew he'd already taken off with Alma's heart.
Angela Cervantes
#44. Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.
Nancy Farmer
#45. Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice ourselves is to stop speaking and thinking and reading about it so much and to start watching and listening.
Frederick Buechner
#46. You're like a doll I had when I was a kid. She was all stiched together and her head kept falling off, but I loved that doll. That's what you look like. Like somebody just loved you to death.
Dia Reeves
#47. I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.
Charles Bukowski
#48. Usually, when you slice a person, he backs off or atleast hesitates. And he's more cautious when you have drawn his blood. But these things just keep coming. Their intestines can be falling out, but it doesn't matter.
Maria V. Snyder
#49. If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.
Stephen Sondheim
#50. If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.
Ronee Blakley
#51. Either my adorably sadistic grandfather has done something terrible to you, or you're about to inform me that I've died by - rather stupidly, if I say so myself - falling off a mountain," he said. "Those seem to be the only two reactions I get these days.
Alexandra Bracken
#52. And now your dead inside, still you wonder why, when your on the edge and falling off, its all over, for you
Three Days Grace
#53. From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#54. There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.
Brock Lesnar
#55. Through the light splaying off the roof, Angela's falling blonde hair looked cream-colored, intricately stitched together like a veil.
Greg Metcalf
#56. I feel as though I have leapt off this massive cliff and I am still building my wings ... Everyone just assumes I know how to fly, but I am pretty sure I am only falling gracefully and hoping to miss the ground.
Thomm Quackenbush
#57. I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?
Jasmine Guinness
#58. Writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend. It didn't have to be successful to be thrilling.
Ann Patchett
#59. That's the thing about being young
we are textbook pages
of trial and error
falling down and getting up
not by way of standing and
brushing off our jeans
buy by laying where we fell
until we were high enough to forget
Kalyn Roseanne Livernois
#60. People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
Ian K. Smith
#61. When he spoke those words, it seemed to Julian that the hatter had put off falling in love with his wife until he had already lost her. 'You only love truly once in a lifetime, Julian, even if you aren't always aware of it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#62. This city has so many beautiful women. I fall in love like every ten minutes, I'm sitting on the subway, I'm like, "There's my wife ... there she is - oh, she's getting off. All right, there's the woman - all right, that's a man."
Jim Gaffigan
#63. One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)
George R R Martin
#64. This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.
Christina Baker Kline
#65. If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.
Michael O'Leary
#66. Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the bottom.
But I did know. Now was what was at the bottom. I was already there.
Robin McKinley
#67. President Bush fell off his mountain bike down on his ranch in Texas. A couple weeks ago, John Kerry fell off his bicycle. See, doesn't this make you miss President Clinton? That guy, he could ride anything without falling off.
Jay Leno
#68. Love isn't governed by logic or understanding. You don't enter into it like an agreement. It crashes down on you. You wake up one morning and realize the reason you can't take your eyes off someone is because you're in love with them.
Sarah Noffke
#69. He brings the cigarette butt to his mouth and lights up. He breathes in, and coughs; a rattling helicopter with a broken blade crashing into a herd of trombone playing sheep falling off a cliff into a DIY shop with a discount on spanners.
Craig Stone
#70. Either I can stay up here and freeze my ladycrackers off trying to find a falling star, or you can do something about it yourself. I - and my freezing nether regions - would thank you most assuredly. As would all of Dalkeith. Do something, man. - Grimm
Karen Marie Moning
#71. McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.
John G. Schmitz
#72. If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
#73. There was another thing I hadn't counted on. And that was falling in love, as fast and irrevocably as you would fall off a cliff, and realizing that loving someone might mean to simultaneously want to slug them and hold them and possibly have to watch them die. ... I hadn't counted on that.
James Patterson
#74. I know it hurts, honey." Mom flipped off the gas stove and wiped her hands on her apron, turning to face me fully. "And it's okay to hurt. Hurting is just as much a part of life as joy, maybe even more important. Falling down teaches you how to stand up." I
Penny Reid
#75. I was treading the thin line of his patience while falling off the thin line of my sanity
C.J. Roberts
#76. Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that's a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.
Tammara Webber
#77. I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that.
Cathy Freeman
#78. A man can lose his life falling off a mountain or falling off a hill. In the end it will not matter how he died, but how he lived. The important thing is to grab the life you can and make the most of it. - Gold Mountain
Sharon Cullars
#79. Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.
Adam Duritz
#80. You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
J.J. Abrams
#81. Either he's shaken by something or he's falling off the wagon hard and fast. Great. Just my luck to be partnered with an alcoholic angel.
Susan Ee
#82. You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes,
Gerard Butler
#83. I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.
Jeremy Clarkson
#84. There are so many ways of falling off the high moral ground you've carefully built up for yourself. Moral ground is like that - slippery at the edges.
Alexander McCall Smith
#85. I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.
Dana Gould
#86. When you can cross the highwire without falling off, you are in a state of perfect balance, perfect grace. It is the same with obedience. When you submit, submit totally, you enter that same equilibrium, surrender and grace. This is the meaning of erotic.
Chloe Thurlow
#87. She laughed. It was better than he could have imagined. Like a giggle falling off its chair.
Rainbow Rowell
#88. When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.
Nicole Sullivan
#89. So what are you doing around here?" I ask, feeling all jittery, but this time it's in a good way.
"Oh, I was just in the area." he says vaguely. "I thought I'd take Welly for a walk ... " He trails off and stuffs his hands in his pockets.
Those butterflies are going crazy in there.
Alexandra Potter
#90. How much is a life worth? This question is the first that enters Zoey's mind each morning, and it is the last she thinks before falling off to sleep every night. Can a price be put on such a thing? And if it could be, would one ever be able to pay it?
Joe Hart
#91. You must be really proud of yourself for pulling that one off." His eyes didn't waver from her face. "I'm almost never proud. They say it goes before a fall, and I'm not planning on falling.
Kami Garcia
#92. I believe in a world where love can still catch you off guard and where the best part is the falling stage. Those shy glances, the racing heart, flushed cheeks, and the butterflies? That's magic.
~Sarah Brocious on More Than Scars
Sarah Brocious
#93. Falling in love is like falling off a building - it doesn't hurt till the end.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#94. I have nothing against the North Koreans but this Kim Jong Un has got a screw loose. A member of his cabinet, his security minister, nods off, falls sleep. We've all done it. Kim Jong Un takes the guy out and has him executed, just for just falling asleep. Oh, and he was also deflating footballs.
David Letterman
#95. He cranks up his arm, rears back, and throws, and the ball, taking an even more perfect path than it took off the bat, travels in a white arc, seeming to leave behind a line like a streak of forgotten rainbow as it drops over the fence, silent as a star falling into a distant ocean.
W.P. Kinsella
#96. I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way down.
Nancy Farmer
#97. She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she'd paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.
Sarah Addison Allen
#98. It's right to say that people fall in love. We don't glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether we'll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything.
Martin Pistorius
#99. They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!
Terry Pratchett
#100. I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.
John Nettles
