Falling Quotes

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. View quote
Socrates
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. View quote
Confucius
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. View quote
Albert Einstein
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself. View quote
Tove Jansson
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. View quote
Jane Austen
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. View quote
Mary Pickford
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. (Edward Snowden)
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. View quote
Michelangelo
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where does the family start It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. View quote
Winston Churchill
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. View quote
Sigmund Freud
You can't blame gravity for falling in love. View quote
Albert Einstein
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. View quote
Jack Kerouac
It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. (Joseph Addison)
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. View quote
Lance Armstrong
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. View quote
W. C. Handy