Quotes of: Angels Keyword

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

African Genesis

You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.

Angels and Insects

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

Art and Lies

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

Art and Lies

Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

But here's how it works: when the world has told you once too often and once and for all that you are nothing nothing nothing then you come to the conclusion that others may be nothing too.

Angels of the Revolution

But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel linked, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garbage.

Hamlet

Eternity hums with every beating heart, with every up-lifted voice, with the crash of waves, the whirl of wind across the shifting dunes, the cry of sea birds, and the trumpets of heavenly angels.

Invisible Wings

The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.

Saffy's Angel

She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!

Saffy's Angel

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

Servant of the Bones

I hadn't been "possessed", after all. Not by an angel or a demon. Maybe there were aspects of both inside me, but was the one who chose which to let out.

Shine

I must forget you forever; that kind face, beautiful smile and heartbreaking black eyes, I should have known that, angels are not made for humans.

A moment with God ; Poetry

Humans have nothing to do with angels and fairies, then why still I love you?

A moment with God ; Poetry

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.

Lord Of The Dead

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears [...]

Ligeia

I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical to think that way, but I had to believe in something good.

Love at First Plight

We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!

A Madness of Angels

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.

Macbeth