Fell Quotes

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.

Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.

The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

Whatever fells your mind is what you are. So, feel loving and peaceful for no reason at all.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”