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He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.
I'm not spiraling down. I could never spiral down with you beside me. You hold me up, Damien.
Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
Going down is not that bad if you have the power to rise again from the bottom of anywhere!
Going down is a greater experience than going up!
Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.
I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes.
Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.
When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.
Hoping to Fall Out:
Leaning out as far as she can, hoping she'll fall soon, so she can stop worrying about whether it will happen or not.
Never dip lower than you can dip.
In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.
Careful.
The fall is quick,
steep,
and permanent.
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
From the sea, to the sea.
in scuba diving, going down and staying down are not the difficult bits, (a brick can do that.) Coming up again is the part that requires skill.
I haven't gone sky diving yet and I want to do that, real bad. I love adrenaline and going fast.
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
I was skydiving horizontally.
I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.
When something really grabs me, I dive into it.
Many ways to fly, but only one way to fall.
Skydiving - I love to do that.
Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head.
The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS
Diving through the stars toward the earth far below
Rushing through the places no one else dares to go
Don't sink into the violent sea
No never
Never
Find the path that sets you free Forever
And ever
There's only one way to tackle life, enjoy a day at the beach, and jump into a Great Lake: Headfirst!
The jump did not go as planned. My father gashed his head and tore his parachute on the tail of the plane. He hit the water hard and submerged. When he surfaced, his head was bleeding, he was vomiting from swallowing seawater, and he had been stung by a Portuguese man-of-war.
Falling is the first step in learning how to fly.
Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
If you hold to the adage, If at first you don't succeed, try try again, sky diving may not be your ideal sport.
I secretly want to skydive, even though it's my greatest fear!
I'm free falling without a parachute in sight.
(...) I ducked once underwater and holding my breath until movement was an agony, blundered painfully ahead, under the surface, for as long as I could. The water was in a tumult about me.
There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.
Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
You have to fall before you fly
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.
Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.
There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.
I'm a combat diver, I've never done something like this.
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
When the river rises, sometimes the only thing to do is float.
When you've reached a certain point in your life, there are people out there waiting to see you fall. but rather than let gravity take you down, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands and fly.
Tossed By Waves,
She Does Not Sink.
If at first you don't succeed ... So much for skydiving.
There is more than one good way to drown.
The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
I'm not falling anymore. I guess you could say that I'm flying.
Since we are sinking, let us sink. We can die but once.
You've gotta learn to love the falling, because it's all about falling.
Into the sky to win or die.
The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up.
If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst.
Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.
In trouble waters I had to learn how to float
Submerge, bitch.
I like to try to hit all of my dives.
It'd be a good setting to jump overboard,' said Dick mildly.
'Wouldn't it?' agreed Nicole hastily. 'Let's borrow life-preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.
Outside is the joy of the drop. Inside is the joy of the ocean.
The Fall was ongoing, but its trajectory led ever downward. Sucked
There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.
When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown ... and pray for an exit
Fall.
My words will guide you
softly
down into
the safety
of my arms.
The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.
Jump and let's build our wings on the way down
Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
And falling's just another way to fly.
away from the ocean, heading toward the
To get lost in the ecstasy and elegance of life, let me dive in the depth of love.
And then she fell, from standing, foot-fins together, straight into the wavelets, where she was now seal, and she flung herself down toward the deeper water.
It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.
into the rapidly cooling night air. The temperatures
He gulped in a lungful of air and dove straight down in an effort to forget Isla and how she had complicated his life. He dove lower than he'd ever gone before. The water crackled in his ears and the pressure pushed against him, but still he continued.
Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?
Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn't just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.
Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
When you fall in love,
Into an adventure you dive,
And like any adventure in life,
You may or may not survive.
I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
You know you can fly. If you can't, imagine the thrill of the fall.
If I fall in, I'm going to drown. The weights upon me are too heavy to stay afloat. My only option is to sink.
You don't have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.
down one giant spiral
When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank.
I'm gonna leave you drowning until you reach for my hand.
I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.
The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
Perhaps, perhaps this would be the one to pull me out of my plunge.
Yes. I'm going to sink into what I feel for you. I'm going to sink into the good times and the scary shit. I'm going to sink with you, because I'm tired of drifting and treading, never committing to anything. I want to sink with you.
Dive into the sea, or stay away
Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps.
I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.
When you have dived off a cliff, your only hope is to press for the abolition of gravity.
The uncertainty of my own experience is crushing. I am drowning in an infinite sea. Sinking slowly, the weight of the lightless depths forcing me down, forcing the air from my lungs, squeezing the blood from my heart.
One minute you're on top
The next you're not watch it drop
Making your heart stop
Just before you hit the floor
If at first you don't succeed, avoid skydiving.