Fallen Quotes
1145 quotes by 817 authors
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Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
— Glen Duncan
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The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends…
— Jack Kerouac
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to…
— D. H. Lawrence
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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
— Mother Teresa
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I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen…
— James M. Barrie
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Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like…
— Charles Bukowski
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I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on…
— Christina Rossetti
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A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different…
— Jane Yolen
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I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life…
— Steven Pressfield
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He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy,…
— Gustave Flaubert
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He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself…
— Neil Gaiman
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I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.
— Susan Minot
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Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to…
— Haruki Murakami
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless…
— A. E. Housman
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