The Fall Quotes

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity!

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

A single leaf falling autumn is everywhere.

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

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

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

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

Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.

When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.

A species divided against itself will eventually fall.

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

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different.

You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall.

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

If someone loves you, they can fall out of love with you but they're probably going to keep fearing you. That's where we are with [Donald] Trump.

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.

Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene

You keep running and one day when you stop running your going to fall, and I'm going to be there to catch you.

When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.