Fallen Quotes - Page 13

• The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Charm, Curtains

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.83, GENERAL PRESS

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• Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Art, Stars

  'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

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• But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain.

  Billy Collins

  Song, Rain, Home

  Billy Collins (1995). “The art of drowning”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Hands, Ordinary

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• I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Angel, Adam, Frankenstein Novel

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.120, Collector's Library

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• But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Pain, Forever, Shadow

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• I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.

  Kami Garcia

  Stupid, Fall, Thinking

  "Beautiful Creatures". Book by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, books.google.ru. December 1, 2009.

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• In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.

  Daniel Defoe

  Mean, Doors, Evil

  Daniel Defoe (1816). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe; including an account of his shipwreck, and residence for twenty-nine years on an unknown island: the remarkable history of his deliverance; and the extraordinary circumstances which afterwards befel him in various parts of the world”, p.197

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• Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Angel, Wicked, Lap

  Sabrina Jeffries (2015). “The Truth About Lord Stoneville”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Running, Jesus

  "Searching for God Knows What". Book by Donald Miller, October 13, 2004.

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• and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.

  Mark Helprin

  Fall, Broken, Darkness

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• In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.

  Osamu Dazai

  Expression, Cases, Situation

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Dog, Men, Hair

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hush Hush, Fallen Angels, Mets

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Air, Shining

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, 1974.

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• Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves. The king smiled. "Cat got your tongue?" "Your Majesty, you are drunk," Costis pleaded. "I am. What's your excuse?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Wall, Cat

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• I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Thinking, Water

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.329, Ballantine Books

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• And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Firsts, Gray, First Time

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• On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across

  Wendy Cope

  Goodbye, Song, Heart

  Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes...reach the light of day?

  Hans Scholl

  Children, Eye, Light

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• I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.

  Kami Garcia

  Arms, Mines, Ripped

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• She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Past

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• God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Want, Containment

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• In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

  Willa Cather

  Falling In Love, People, World

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.275, U of Nebraska Press

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