Falling

Famous quotes containing the word falling:

    “For a long time, I went to bed early. Sometimes, my candle barely put out, my eyes closed so quickly that I did not have the time to say to myself: “I am falling asleep”.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “In my grandmother’s house there was always chicken soup
    And talk of the old country—mud and boards,
    Poverty,
    The snow falling down and necks of lovers.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    “Here falling houses thunder on your head,
    And here a female atheist talks you dead.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)