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Quotes About Fallen

Was it Apollo's snare so that poets forever should be caught in the maze of the walls of a Troy that never fell?
~ H.D.
good little goat in the heart, and it fell dead.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
~ Havelock Ellis
Heil meiner Verbannung aus dem Garten Eden! Wäre ich nicht gefallen, so hätte ich keine Gelegenheit gehabt, die Lebenstiefen zu ergründen.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.
~ Heather O'Neill
Cómo caíste del cielo... (Isaías 14:12)
~ Heather Terrell
He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.
~ Lee Child
Like Lucifer, he creates darkness as he descends.
~ James Salter
The immense southern night had fallen. It glittered everywhere, in houses along the beach, supermarkets open late, the white marquees of theaters.
~ James Salter
War is inevitable when the world is fallen. If you stop one, another will start. Redemption is the only path away from war.
~ Jane Smiley
The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century.
~ Rob Portman
I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
~ Manfred von Richthofen
Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.
~ John Shelton Reed
Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
~ Dan Quinn
A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.
~ Timothy Egan
the human moral standpoint itself shares in fallen human hubris.
~ Timothy J. Wengert
We are fallen dreamers, who dream of better worlds than the one in which we live. But the dreams we envision are often more about our own agenda than they are about our Lord's. Though we may not be aware of it, we are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord. The change he is working on is not the change we dream about. We dream about change in it—a person or circumstance—but God is working in the midst of it to change us.
~ Timothy S. Lane
I loved my family, but that night in the car I hit the wall of the reality of relationships in a fallen world.
~ Timothy S. Lane
I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers; This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours Seems fallen into ashes dull and grey
~ Oscar Wilde
Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same!
~ Ovid
Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It's just the living part we still have to work out.
~ Damon Galgut
1) they move against us: attack; (2) they move away from us: abandonment; (3) they move toward us: love. In the context of a sinful, fallen world, our emotional responses to these relational movements can generally be characterized as fight or flight. The following diagram shows how these responses give rise to our difficult emotions.
~ Dan B. Allender
They had fallen onto a section of the glacier that had already begun its inevitable plunge to the sea.
~ Dan Brown
Thus you see having committed a Crime once, is a sad Handle to the committing of it again; whereas all the Regret, and Reflections wear off when the Temptation renews it self; had I not yielded to see him again, the Corrupt desire in him had worn off, and 'tis very probable he had never fallen into it, with any Body else, as I really believe he had not done before.
~ Daniel Defoe