Falls Quotes
1434 quotes by 1058 authors
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You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran…
— Tana French
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O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's…
— Delmore Schwartz
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I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I…
— Susan Griffin
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There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.
— Robert Musil
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The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He advises “Be careful,…
— Shams Tabrizi
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God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.
— Max Lucado
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Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it…
— Georgia Douglas Johnson
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
— Byron Katie
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
— Salman Rushdie
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Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his burden is too…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be…
— Nelson Mandela
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In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking…
— Alan Weisman
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Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the…
— Pat Ament
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By…
— Tori Amos
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When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor.
— Lissa Rankin
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As awareness recedes into the deep, as when it falls asleep, everything seemingly ends. All that it takes is a gentle touch to your body;…
— John de Ruiter
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