Quotes About Angel

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

Oh, Tatyana, The Angel comes: better to squawk like a chicken Than to say with truth, "But I'm a good girl," And Meet his Challenge with a last firm strange Uncomprehending smile; and—then, then!—see The blind date that has stood you up: your life. (For all this, if it isn't, perhaps, life, Has yet, at least, a language of its own Different from the books'; worse than the books'.) And yet, the ways we miss our lives are life.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.

Be just,—not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man's life.

he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

What matters most: What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. Wind, Sand and Stars.

Maybe Helmund is an angel after all. Maybe that's who he's been all along.

For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

A woman with a voice like that should have the face of an angel, the body of a Greek sculpture, and the skills of a courtesan. Chances were, she was a haggard old crone. The hulking workman began to gather his tools. I hope ye and yer pa know what ye're doin'. Fop or no, no man takes well to losin' his belongings. Psht , the woman said airily. It's not as if we plan on knocking him in the head and peeling his pockets. That was something,at least, Dougal thought grimly.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.

A man is an angel that has gone deranged.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.

When Christ returns, and only then, will the angel's message to the shepherds be totally fulfilled: Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

« Barabas pulled Christopher out of the cage. The man stared up at him. "I died, didn't I? Are you an angel?" "Sure," Barabas said. "Follow me to the Heavenly Shower »

Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.