Henry, for heaven's sake! You can't propose when I'm…

“The floor scooped me up where I stood, and I blinked as it hit me”

— M. Beth Bloom

Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the…

— Herman Melville

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and whether or…

— Ernest Bevin

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one.

— Emilie Autumn

And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

All through first and second and third hour, Eleanor rubbed her palm. Nothing happened. How could it be possible that there were that many…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: ‘repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life’ list, which…

— Adele Rose

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love…

— Gerald Massey

What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever,…

— Robert Morgan

“There was a very slight lilt to it, too, attesting to a childhood spent far from Lincolnshire, and Grace felt herself sway, as if…

— Julia Quinn

If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash…

— Moncure D. Conway

We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little…

— J.R. Miller

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and…

— William Wilberforce