Fallen Quotes

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. (Socrates)
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
If you love two people, pick the second, because if you truly loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen for the second. View quote
Johnny Depp
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. View quote
W. H. Auden
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. View quote
Anne Rice
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. View quote
Lewis Mumford
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. View quote
Barbara Stanwyck
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 one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved? (Jack Kerouac)
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. View quote
Christina Rossetti
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. View quote
Desmond Morris
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. View quote
Rita Rudner
Let us not allow the splits and splintering to frighten us. It is, indeed, a pity, but what can we do, since we are all Bulgarians and all suffer from one common disease. If this disease had not been present in our ancestors, from whom we inherited it, they would have never fallen under the sceptre of the Turkish Sultan... View quote
Gotse Delchev
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. View quote
Boris Pasternak
There are those fallen who don't get up so as not to fall again. View quote
Antonio Porchia
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. View quote
John Boyd Orr
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. View quote
John Shelby Spong
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. (Keith Henson)
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. View quote
Michael N. Castle
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power. View quote
Roy Moore
By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. View quote
Thomas Carlyle