Philosophy Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.”

— W.A. Clouston

“At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal. ”

— Walker Percy

“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“He was conscious of a cold and sickly thrill throughout him; and all he reasoned was this, that the young creature whose graces had…

— Thomas Hardy

“The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer”

— Dan Brown

“She became the angel condemned to linger inside his heart.”

— Felix Alexander

“And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle…

— Voltaire

“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living—one without massacres and…

— Laini Taylor

“I’ve noticed in my life that the people who act as my angels are not some strange angelic creatures that seem almost untouchable, but…

— Hippie

“The trouble with being an angel on Earth was that he was still a man. He got hungry. He thirsted. His lungs clamored without…

— Erin Kellison