Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Falling is one of the ways of moving.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.

The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge.

If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

... life, by definition, is never still.

Motion is the sign of life.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.