Fallen Quotes
1145 quotes by 817 authors
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be…
— Wislawa Szymborska
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I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.
— Tim Tebow
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My whole career, I've had an issue with always kind of being an underdog and making a big mistake when it counts and falling and…
— Johnny Weir
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
— Adam Weishaupt
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
— Ida B. Wells
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Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored,…
— Allen West
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While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for…
— Allen West
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In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious…
— Ellen G. White
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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our…
— Robert Ardrey
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With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring…
— Angela Carter
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Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant…
— Jack Kerouac
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I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
— Michel Faber
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I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back…
— Denis Johnson
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now…
— Victor Hugo
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It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home.…
— Thomas Pynchon
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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the…
— Wallace Stevens
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When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
— John Steinbeck
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps…
— Yann Martel
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