Quotes About Fallen

So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war's true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war — which was being remembered even as it was fought, whose fallen were being remembered before they fell — seems not so much to be tinted by retrospect as to have been fought retrospectively.

Deep friendships are often so very hard to find because this is the fallen place.

The yellow eyes had fallen from the tired star. Lorq's face erupted about the scar at some antic from the Mouse that Katin had missed. Rage, Katin pondered. Rage. Yes, he is laughing. But how is anyone supposed to distinguish between laughter and rage in that face? But the others were laughing too. Yet some way, somehow, we do.

She was foolish to go on meeting him for lunch, chatting at the library when every meeting troubled her foolish heart and made her see that she had fallen in love with him.

The disaster had fallen out of sight, like the train itself, and if the calm that followed it was not greater than the calm that came before it, it had seemed so.

Tragically, when sin entered the world, human beings were separated from God and from one another. For example, in Genesis 3 we see our first parents hiding from God and one another in shame that includes confusion over their nakedness and sexuality.

It is no doubt very wrong to long after a naughty thing. But nevertheless, we all do so. One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall. When we confess that we are all sinners, we confess that we all long after naughty things

She was a Catholic... And deemed that fallen worship far more dear Perhaps because 'twas fallen...' Lord Byron, Don Juan

As I drift through the autumn of my life like a fallen leaf blown about by the winds of time, I sometimes ponder my destiny.

must confess the sin of envy. I have secretly envied those who enjoyed a success greater than mine or received more recognition. I've thought to myself, and even to God, Why not me? Didn't I work as hard or have as much talent? and so on. I know that is petty, but it is part of my fallen condition.

Mammon, the least erected spirit that fellFrom heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughtsWere always downward bent, admiring moreThe riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold,Than aught divine or holy else enjoyedIn vision beatific.

Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.

O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

he had required, to enhance his gratification, that his victim, the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and degradation:

It is dangerous to think people human, who once have been divine.

There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the minds of all than the impossibility of fallen man meriting anything by his own best good works. Salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

The world, though fallen, is not all sorrow and misery. In nature itself are messages of hope and comfort.

It was Satan's purpose to bring about an eternal separation between God and man; but in Christ we become more closely united to God than if we had never fallen.

One of the most powerful of the angels, he says, has been banished from heaven. The appearance of Jesus indicates that He is that fallen angel, forsaken by God, and deserted by man.

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

Under oath I'd like to refute the canard that I'm an old chum of Winston Churchill's--a fable that constantly bobs up in print. But he did come to seem me five times when I was playing in Fallen Angels.

Certain of the angels having fallen, God made men, that they might take their vacated places.

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.