Cliff Quotes

“I lost a horse today.'
'That sounds careless. What happened?'
'She jumped off a cliff.'
'A cliff! Is that normal?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“She was on a high cliff edge somewhere between laughing and crying and screaming.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“When a man is standing at the top of a cliff, it isn’t fear of falling that keeps him rooted to the edge — it’s the fear of not being able to resist the desire to jump, just to see what falling feels like.”
― Cristelle Comby, Russian Dolls

“To take the ‘easy way’ is to walk a path that doesn’t exist to the edge of a cliff that does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To figure out clever ways to lie is to believe that we’ve skillfully skirted the edge of a really big cliff. What we don’t realize is that we walked off the edge of that cliff the moment that we decided to lie. Therefore, there is no edge to skirt. Rather, there’s only an impact to prepare for.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“And I believe that this terror is precisely what must have snagged me, the way a ledge will tempt one to jump off. The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“We marvel at people who build houses on the edge of the cliff, but is there a person in this mortal world who doesn't stand on the edge of the cliff?”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Cliffs most love those who come to the very edge of the cliff without their legs shaking!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When most people see a cliff, they immediately go to the edge of it because they want to see the end of the cliff, not the beginning! But why? Because the end of the story is much more important than the beginning of the story!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The desires of a man’s heart are many, and far too many of them lead to the exact same cliff.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As I passed no fence, sign, house or road,
On my last trek down the cliffs above the sea,
I knew that despite my loneliness,
I was the effigy of the free.”
― Signe Knutson, Lovolution 23: Poems and Songs

“It is too late to look after me when I have already fallen over the cliff.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The 2020 USA election was akin to watching President Trump being pushed off a cliff in slow motion.”
― Steven Magee

“Suicide is as easy as stepping into the beautiful Grand Canyon.”
― Steven Magee

“Politics is falling off of a cliff without a parachute while claiming that the first isn’t happening and the second is unnecessary. And as soon as they hit the ground, they're telling the paramedics the same thing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind.”
― Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

“The Edge by Stewart Stafford

Hanging on the jagged edge,
Taunted to plunge in the deep,
Surfing wild on stormy winds,
Cold sweat at pain's brief sweep.

Nestled in some whirling gusts,
Gooseflesh skin from chilly hands,
A mask for a mimicry ball,
An everyman's muddled land.

Rising from some inner call,
Not a fugazi in Kismet's window.
The path still fogged from sight,
I climb higher, to touch the rainbow.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The times that I have been most vehemently criticized were those times when I had worked to keep people from walking off a cliff that they could not see because they believed that I held a prejudice I did not have.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People's words are like a cliff if you put under your feet you will rise up، and if you listen to them you will be fallen.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It began raining harder and my thoughts drifted towards the waterfall from the night before. I wondered if the water might work itself into a frenzy around me and drag me down the cliff with it. Flash floods were common in this type of landscape; they came every time it rained. It kept coming down, harder and harder. I cozied up closer to the frigid rock and buried myself deeper in my tank top. By this point, the rain was building into streams and flowing off the rocks around me. I sat there in the fetal position, wondering if the rain was going to sweep me from my feeble perch and down into the dark abyss.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I realized I’d been teetering on a cliff for a very long time now. I needed to find something stable to build my life on, something solid and reliable. I would need help, but after tonight, I realized I hadn’t ever been entirely alone in this battle. At first light, the moment the hue of the darkness began to lift, I forced myself to get up and take my first wobbly step towards freedom.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Do you want to accomplish something difficult? Then go to the very edge of a cliff and stand there without thinking about the cliff!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The optimist doesn’t fear the height of the cliff. Rather, they’re looking forward to the walk across the bridge.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He placed his hands on my shoulders. . . A cute boy was touching me, and all I was thinking about was whether I could push him over the cliff edge and make it look like an accident.”
― Becky Dean, Picture Perfect Boyfriend

“How often have our choices dug the cliff that we just fell off of?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In poorly structured code, the move from figuring things out to making changes feels like jumping off a cliff to avoid a tiger. You hesitate and hesitate. "Am I ready to do it? Well, I guess I have to.”
― Michael C. Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code

“If you have to choose between a very rotten bridge and a cliff, choose the cliff, because you know the cliff won't collapse! The cliff is now your new sturdy bridge!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Morality protects us from the permissiveness that didn’t see cliff.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough