Angels

Famous quotes containing the word angels:

    “Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “Wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.”
    —Bible: New Testament Jude, verse 13.

    Recalling the Book of Enoch, in which fallen angels were condemned to be stars.

    “The angels are stooping
    Above your bed;
    They weary of trooping
    With the whimpering dead.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)