Angels Quotes

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

~ John Connolly

There's no such thing as coincidences, only incidences with a twist.

~ Leanore Elliott

I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

~ George Sand

Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.

~ J.r. Ward

I tell my girls when you have done everything humanly possible, when you have fought with everything in you for something you truly believe in and it is still out of reach, it's time to become a feather. Let the wind guide you for awhile....

~ Susan Goldsmith

He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan)

~ Helen Boswell

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

~ Clive Barker

No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.

~ Cassandra Clare

The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

~ Chris Bohjalian

On a wing and a prayer. (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).

~ Benjamin R. Smith

Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.

~ Holly Black

That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Told ya you were special.

~ Thomas E. Sniegoski

The Angel said, 'Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong, and the one who is filthy still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness.

~ Anonymous

The sudden urge to join the fray was intoxicating.Aaron Corbet

~ Thomas E. Sniegoski

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

~ William Shakespeare

Fine,” he said. “You’re right. We’re not normal. We’re the most fucked-up, star-crossed lovers in history. So let’s not play nice.

~ Larissa Ione

It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.

~ Chris Adrian

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

~ Danielle Trussoni

If journeys came with rulebooks, he'd probably just disobeyed every word.

~ Heather Burch

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)

~ Peter S. Beagle

I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, Dancers are the athletes of God. You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.

~ Kirsty Murray

If we are serious about dreaming our awakening into being and creating a peaceful, loving earth in which the heart, spirit and soul are the only true leaders, we must continue to keep our focus on thoughts of unity and all that truly brings us together.

~ Diane Hall

His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.

~ Laini Taylor

If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

~ John Chrysostom

The satisfying sound of bone giving way, as well as his outraged cry, made the you-had-it-coming-asshole angles sing.

~ J.a. Saare

If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth,They paint the angels fair.

~ L.m. Montgomery

O smile, going where? O upturned look:new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;alas, we are that surge. Does then the cosmic spacewe dissolve in taste of us? Do the angelsreclaim only what is theirs, their own outstreamed existence,or sometimes, by accident, does a bit of usget mixed in? Are we blended in their featureslike the slight vagueness that complicates the looksof pregnant women? Unnoticed by them in theirwhirling back into themselves? (How could they notice?)

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

She hadn’t planned any of this, but her thoughts ran away with her, and she hated how pathetic she must sound. Poor little human needed the big bad angel to rescue her. Yuck.

~ India Drummond

Upon awakening you may find no need to speak nothing to sayand no one to convince.Your very presence will spread happiness wisdom and truthto all you may encounter...along the Way.

~ Leland Lewis

All that you areforever to Be,Is prior to...and just beyondInfinity.

~ Leland Lewis

The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have done, prior to the hour of misfortune.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

A monster, some called her. But in the shadows, only said in whispers, she was an angel in red.

~ Emory R. Frie

She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.

~ Alice Hoffman

A miracle is no less glorious for having previously happened

~ Erika Gardner

Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.

~ Susan Ee

Heroes are like angels, they're all around us… we just don’t always stop to notice ...

~ Nanette L. Avery

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.

~ Cassandra Clare

Fate isn't set in stone. Free will can change everything

~ A.j. Messenger

I pray that I'll have wings one day, in which Your light adorns; but for now please let me be Your servant, Lord, like an angel not yet born.

~ Lisa Mischelle Wood