Fallen Quotes - Page 2

• My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

  Hugh Laurie

  Dad, Firsts, Week

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• Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

  John Boyd Orr

  Rivals, Empires, Defeat

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• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Literature, Way

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hope, Falling In Love, Giving Up

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• The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

  John Cheever

  Love, People, Justice

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

  Paul Westerberg

  Rocks, Glowing, Forever

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• I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Names, Fats

  'American Names' (1927)

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• We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Failure, Fall

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.53, Macmillan

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• Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fall

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• Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Self

  William Law (2001). “An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9”, p.54, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Beautiful, Enemy, Stones

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.114, BoD – Books on Demand

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You don't really know either of us," Cam said, standing and stepping away, "but you're prepared to choose right now, huh?

  Lauren Kate

  Said, Prepared, Standing

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.245, Delacorte Press

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• He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boss, Fallen Angels, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1518, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace

  Cassandra Clare

  Stuff, Fallen Angels, Jace

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• Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

  Cassandra Clare

  Vampire, Mojo, Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1387, Simon and Schuster

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• You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eyebrows, Forever, Leaving

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1350, Simon and Schuster

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• So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?" "Love is a contradiction," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love Is, Unhappy, Trying

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1535, Simon and Schuster

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• We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dad, Book, Kids

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1396, Simon and Schuster

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• L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Powerful, Moving, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1454, Simon and Schuster

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• You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Thinking, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.

  Cassandra Clare

  Past, Giving, Littles

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1501, Simon and Schuster

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• What was that?" Jace said. "Sorry, I think I fell asleep for a moment. Do, continue with whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sorry, Thinking, Moments

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Art, Motivation, Fall

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