To Fall Quotes

#1. I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

Laura Fraser

#2. ...the thunder has sounded--but who knows where the rain's going to fall.

Hong Ying

#3. Tell me that that's what it's like to fall in love, like you don't have room for yourself in your own feet.

Fredrik Backman

#4. How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

Christina Perri

#5. Moving stranger,
Does it really matter,
As long as you're not afraid to feel?
Touch me, hold me.
How my open arms ache!
Try to fall for me.

Kate Bush

#6. You expect me to fall on my back with my legs spread."
"Not necessarily ... You can fall on your hands and knees if you prefer. Or against the wall. Or on the kitchen counter. I suppose I might let you be on top, if you make it worth my while.

Ilona Andrews

#7. 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

#8. Wanting to fall in love and being totally unable to trust, hungering for connection and always finding it claustrophobic.

Eve Ensler

#9. She'd felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

Marie Rutkoski

#10. Don't find love, let it find you. It's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall, you just do.

Taylor Swift

#11. There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

Dan Simmons

#12. When I know God's place, I can know my place - then things start to fall into place.

James MacDonald

#13. Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

#14. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predictable of calamities.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

Samuel Johnson

#16. I've been using the power of the IMAX medium, with its gigantic screens and supervivid pictures, to get people to fall in love with the ocean.

Greg MacGillivray

#17. As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling, so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups.

John McGahern

#18. When you've dreamt of someone for so long and you finally find her, it takes your breath away. You want to fall down on your knees before her and offer her the world.

M. Stratton

#19. It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.

Walter Mosley

#20. It took me an hour to know you, and only a day to fall in love, but it will take me a lifetime to forget you.

Stevie J. Cole

#21. Every time I see you, I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall. I feel uncomfortable every time I see you, and every time we talk, my throat tickles.

Yoon Joon-soo

#22. It was a fear that was all too easy to fall into when one's focus was too narrow. To be caught up in an environment, facing down a relentless torrent of negative experiences. Even the minor things added up, if you couldn't step back to look at things in perspective.

Wildbow

#23. I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

Mira Nair

#24. If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.

Mark Strong

#25. My gorgeous little rabbit," I say, in a voice that is low and husky with passion. "I may dominate you in the bedroom, Em, but you dominate my thoughts, my hopes and my dreams. I love you, Emily Jarman and I'm going to fall in love with you again and again, each and every day of our lives.

Nikki Sex

#26. That's what happens when you fall. Everything that was bright about you becomes dark. As brilliant as you once were, that's how evil you become. It's a long way to fall

Cassandra Clare

#27. I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

Elizabeth Debicki

#28. I want to fall in love with the internet, but I haven't fallen in love with it yet, because I still have not given love on the internet.

Terence Koh

#29. 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

#30. Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?

Jessica Zafra

#31. What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.

Henry Reed

#32. It's sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone.

J.L. Merrow

#33. Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

Pierre Corneille

#34. I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

Ansel Adams

#35. He'd never seen a rain quite like this so gentle that it seemed barely to fall yet slowly laid its shine on the bay leaves and hydrangea flowers ...

Rose Tremain

#36. Sofia was ice. She was ripples. She was the kind of person who'd sneak into the zoo after hours just to paint an extra spot on a giraffe's neck. She was stubborn. She was lovely. She was the autumn leaf that refused to fall.

Michael Ebner

#37. All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

Harry S. Truman

#38. Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall

Barbara Kingsolver

#39. To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?

Victor Hugo

#40. Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.

Laurie Colwin

#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. I didn't want to... want. The more you wanted, the further you had to fall.

Ellie James

#43. I remember what it felt like to fall in love for the first time. You think you'll never love like that again. But you do.

Jenny Han

#44. If you chance to fall into any kind of dispute with a friend, do not despise him for this reason, nor betray his confidences. Prov.

Unknown

#45. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

#46. I must be the latest in a long line of freshly dismembered men to fall under the spell of Lola Shanks.

Max Barry

#47. The Atonement is not a backup plan in case we happen to fall short in the process; it is the ordained means whereby we gradually become complete and whole, in a sin-strewn process of sanctification through which our Father patiently guides us.

Terryl L. Givens

#48. When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

Jordin Sparks

#49. The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from falling into a still greater sin-pride. Your temptation will pass and you will spend the remaining days of your life in humility. Only do not forget your sin.

Seraphim Of Sarov

#50. I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

Henry Miller

#51. Teagan - "What is it?"
Garreth - "No one's ever prayed for me before. I've always heard your prayers. You prayed for me to come to you when you had a bad dream. I even heard you pray for a perfect, selfless, superwonderful boy to fall in love with. But I've never heard you pray for me.

Jennifer Murgia

#52. Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Veronica Roth

#53. Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all

Bob Dylan

#54. I don't know what you hope for in a husband, but if it is to be loved ... well, I think it would be very easy to fall in love with you.

Mary Jo Putney

#55. We become our decisions over time. We choose to love, or we can choose to hate. We can choose to forgive, or we can choose to take revenge; to have hope, or we can choose to fall into despair. But, regardless, we become our choices we make over time. p. 318

David LeRoy

#56. Attention is never a good thing, as any other accident-prone klutz would agree. No one wants a spotlight when they're likely to fall on their face.

Stephenie Meyer

#57. He turned to stare down at his latte, wiping hard at his cheeks as the tears started to fall. He didn't push away the pain. It was his and he would own it. He wouldn't bury it again.

Suzanne Young

#58. Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

Ed Koch

#59. When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Mariel Hemingway

#60. At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called to me and I started to fall in love with characters who had that burning desire inside of them, this hope.

Glen Keane

#61. I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Berenice Abbott

#62. What was the first rule to getting someone to fall in line? Figure out what they need and give them a taste. Not enough to sate them, but enough to whet their appetite. Enough that they wanted more. Needed more.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#63. I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.

Mary Crosby

#64. No one needs to get bruised up falling in love. I just want to fall the way everybody else gets to.

Nicola Yoon

#65. Pornography won't be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want to smell and taste the true information. All artists want to make their fantasies reality. And everyone with a cock wants to use it to fall in love.

Peter Sotos

#66. Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.

Kami Garcia

#67. He thinks I'm going to fall apart. But I won't.

Bethany Griffin

#68. So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Ruth Gordon

#69. He felt as though he had swelled up to the size of a giant. The love in him made his chest a dynamo, and he wanted to shout so that his voice could be heard throughout the town. He wanted to fall upon the floor and call out in a giant voice.

Carson McCullers

#70. Because I can't look at you. Because all I want to do is touch you. Because I want to hunt and kill everyone who ever hurt you. Because healing you is personal to me. Because I'm going to fall in love with you.

C.D. Reiss

#71. This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Lord Byron

#72. Anyone who'd spent a childhood waiting for the other foot - or the other fist - to fall knew how to sense danger.

Rob Thomas

#73. We don't need to do anything new. We simply need to protect Social Security so that when people reach a certain age and are no longer earning an income, they have a safety net through which they are not going to fall.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#74. 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

#75. To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Confucius

#76. Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

Jesse Ventura

#77. Once upon a time there was a boy who didn't get to fall in love. The End.

John Goode

#78. You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

Brad Pitt

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

Jhumpa Lahiri

#80. I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world ... that's motherhood.

Cass Elliot

#81. I want you to know that whatever love is, this has got to be it. We were best friends first, and we tried not to fall in love, and we did anyway. If you're not with me, it's not where I want to be. I'm in this. I'm with you.

Jamie McGuire

#82. They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes

Haruki Murakami

#83. Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.

Paul Coffey

#84. I felt the mood shift. And, for no reason at all other than that he didn't expect it, I climbed fully clothed into the bath and kissed him as he laughed and spluttered. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall.

Jojo Moyes

#85. 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

#86. [The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I'm carrying piping hot coffee.

Wes Locher

#87. The best way never to fall is ever to fear.

William Jenkyn

#88. Undoubtedly, one of the reasons God allows us to fall before temptation so often is to teach us experientially that we really are dependent on Him to enable us to grow in holiness.

Jerry Bridges

#89. Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.

Bertrand Russell

#90. Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

Christina Ricci

#91. I was tired in ways that had nothing to do with sleep. It occurred to me, sitting in the car with her, that I had been trying to hold too many things together that were meant to fall apart.

Pete Dexter

#92. He sits with the pen in his hand, holding himself back from a descent into representations that have no place in the world, on the point of toppling, enclosed within a moment in which all creations lies open at his feet, the moment before he loosens his grip and begins to fall.

J.M. Coetzee

#93. Sometimes I dig holes for people to fall in. Then I shout, "I've got you!

Amanda Mosher

#94. Some few of my brothers had walked among humans and dared to love human women. These Nephilim loved fiercely and deeply. It seemed to me they had been struck with a sickness, or taken prisoner, and I dared to pity them. How sad, I thought, to Fall because of love. Until it happened to me.

Vicki Keire

#95. Everything put together is made to fall apart.

Jeffrey Fry

#96. I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

Tana French

#97. I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

Arija Bareikis

#98. It's not a big deal to fall madly in love with someone bright, extraordinary and charismatic; a big deal is to become the matching person, who is worthy to be loved back.

Sahara Sanders

#99. I haven't had a gaffe or something that I've done that has caused me to fall in the polls.

Michele Bachmann

#100. Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.

Friedrich Von Logau