Fall

Famous quotes containing the word fall:

“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Labor was toil, distress, trouble, fatigue—an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)

“I’m
Aware the days pass quicker than before,
Smell staler too. And once they fall behind
They look like ruin. You have been here some time.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with the person they love.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)