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Quotes About Fallen

Damien, les poètes se sont trompés: est-ce l'esprit du mal qui est l'ange déchu? C'est celui de l'amour, qui, après le grand oeuvre, ne voulut pas quitter la terre, et, tandis que ses frères remontaient au ciel, laissa tomber ses ailes d'or en poudre aux pieds de la beauté qu'il avait créée.
~ Alfred de Musset
No man wants more war if he's planned memorial services for fallen comrades, carried their flag-draped caskets off a plane, and buried them at Arlington National Cemetery.
~ Tom Cotton
Scandals have impacted many politicians' careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
~ Michael Gove
NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.
~ Stephen Rodrick
It was no easy feat becoming Dominick Dunne. Think about it. He was the most celebrated chronicler of downtrodden socialites. He feasted on their famine with little sympathy or admiration for their formerly exalted positions. Yet somehow they invited him back.
~ Dan Abrams
He felt the sadness of Lucifer.
~ Richard Condon
Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood? He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes a good excuse, doesn't it, Neville? Oh, shut up.
~ Richard Matheson
Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes
~ Richard Matheson
He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic.
~ Richard Matheson
That abandoned house, With its yard of fallen leaves, In the setting sun.
~ Richard Wright
She looked like a radiant little cherub fallen to earth.
~ Kathy Love
In London, I tended to hang with the fallen.
~ Ken Bruen
The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.
~ Russell D. Moore
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,Shrunk to this little measure?
~ William Shakespeare
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
~ William Shakespeare
America, has fallen in the grip of the most portentous cycle in the history of mankind.
~ William Strauss
It teaches that man is an apostate creature, fallen from his original innocence, degraded in his nature, depraved in his thinking, prone toward evil, not good, and impacted by sin to the very core of his being.
~ William Wilberforce
When you put it together, it looks like this: Our natural condition is weak and fallen and our temptations are numerous; God is infinitely holy, yet He offers forgiveness, grace and enabling power to those who get honest with Him and are willing to repent.
~ William Wilberforce
A fallen person who is away from God and who is without God is altogether an embodiment of opinion. It
~ Witness Lee
just to gloat at mum and dad's golden girl brought low. But
~ David Nicholls
The fanged shadows boiled out behind them, howling for blood, their voices creaking with the sound of snapping bones. The fallen of Hethor's own party seemed to be swept up in the pursuit, dead correct people on their trail, keening, crying, blaming. Rivers of red flowed rapidly across the stone dock in the twilight, slippery sticky blood overtaking their flight to make them trip and slide headfirst into stone bollards or pitch screaming into the sea.
~ Jay Lake
The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen
~ Jean Baptiste Lacoraire