Falling Quotes
2730 quotes by 1873 authors
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not…
— John Thorn
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A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a…
— Robert Benchley
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of…
— Zadie Smith
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from…
— Teju Cole
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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
— Edward Abbey
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on…
— Hanif Kureishi
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But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
— John Irving
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The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of…
— Erich Fromm
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Falling is one of the ways of moving.
— Merce Cunningham
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are going to have other people trust you,…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the…
— Poul Anderson
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Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
— Poul Anderson
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There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered…
— Philip Pullman
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It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl…
— Brian De Palma
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A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything…
— Elizabeth Jane Howard
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I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.
— Amanda Palmer
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