“The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.” InspirationalArtBeautifulLiteratureLordDevilAngelMythRevolutionaryImmortal Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literature. It's still out there, and people are still interested. Even in the more secular way, books about angels are everywhere.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsBookLiteratureReligiousStudyAngelSecularTheologian Author:Danielle Trussoni
“I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look at Steven Pinker's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. It proves beyond any shadow of doubt that violence has declined dramatically throughout the centuries. There are various reasons for it: the rise of the state, Leviathan, the monopoly of violence, children's rights, animal rights. They're all positive signs.” ThinkingBookReasonDoneLiteratureAnimalDoubtViolenceProveAngelShadowVariousAnimal Rights Author:Martin Amis
“I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.” WayI CanLiteratureChristianityAngelSaintFar Away Author:Anne Rice
“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.” IfsFacesLiteratureMagicAngelTalesFairyFairy TaleFairytale Author:Danielle Steel
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.” MindHas BeensMadeSelfPhilosophyLiteratureLanguageConsciousnessBeautyLaughingDepressionLaughterDevilAngelShameMadIntensityInabilityLoathingSelf ConsciousnessSelf LoathingSocial AnxietyMy AngelSocially Awkward Book:Moab is My Washpot Source: Moab is My Washpot
“Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.” HeartSelfLiteratureSurvivalAngelStriveIdeology Author:John le Carre