Quotes about angels
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“Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

“Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.”

William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

“He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

Beauty

“Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust your angels to catch your wish and bring it to you in a delightfully surprising way.”

Doreen Virtue (1958) American writer

Way, Universe

“Few can claim a single angel who guards them. But you can.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find…”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Selfishness

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

Clive Barker book Mister B. Gone

Source: Mister B. Gone

Feeling

“She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Source: Selected Poems

Way, Sun

“If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.”

Jessica Bird book Covet

Source: Covet

Happiness, Christmas

“I swear on the Angel." He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. "The hell with that. I swear on us.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Hell, Kiss

“(Looking at their son on ultrasound.)
He looks like an angel. (Cassandra)
I don’t know. I think he looks like a frog or something. (Wulf)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Thinking

“I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

Hell, Singing

“The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.”

Josephine Tey book The Franchise Affair

Source: The Franchise Affair

Thinking

“She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Loneliness, Cry, Flying

“I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.”

Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1951) Spanish writer and journalist

Learning

“I couldn’t leave Total behind.”
“Total?” Iggy asked.
“That’s what his card said,” Angel explained.
“Totally a mutant dog who will probably turn on us and kill us in our sleep,” Fang said.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Dogs, Sleep

“When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle
atop some crumbling building,
spring to life
a resuscitated
angel.”

Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

Source: , said the shotgun to the head.

Life, Feeling, Spring

“I'd rather argue with you, angel, then laugh with anyone else.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep… a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Soul, Mountain, Star, Kiss

“Do you know what most people have from their grandmother? A tea set. Or a quilt.” Curran smiled. “If your family had a quilt, it would be made out of chimera skin and stuffed with feathers from dead angels.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

People, Family, Smile, Tea

“My old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Pain, Heart

“Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth a raven´s claws…

Death

“Magnus had heard the story of how the Nephilim were created many times. They must have forgotten to leave out the bit that said: And the Angel descended from on high and gave his chosen ones fantastic abs.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

Time

“In the immortal words of Maya Angelou … people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Inferno

People, Feeling, Forgetting

“Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Life, Thinking

“Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

America, A Prophecy.
1800s
Source: America: A Prophecy/Europe: A Prophecy: Facsimile Reproductions of Two Illuminated Books

“Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

Perfection

“By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.”

J. Sheridan Le Fanu book In a Glass Darkly

Source: In a Glass Darkly

Fools, Change

“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.”

Bret Easton Ellis book Less Than Zero

Source: Less Than Zero (1985)

People

“Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Flying

“What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

“In heaven an angel is no one in particular.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.”

Henry Miller book Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Men, Heart, Drawing

“I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel."She says there's massive danger down here, something too big for us to fix or deal with."
"So of course you immediately came down.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Water

“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) Australian writer

Source: The Solitary Summer

Love, Feeling, Hurt

“Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.”

Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) American poet

Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World
Source: Collected Poems, 1943-2004
Context: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys,
And spirited from sleep, the astounded soul
Hangs for a moment bodiless and simple
As false dawn.
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.

“The Beautiful Poem"

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissing a few moments ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.

Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
feel beautiful.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster

Beauty, Feeling, Thinking

“I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else."

Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in my mouth.

"You know… I love you madly."

He smiled. "Yes, I know.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Love, Smile

“He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

Love, Heart, Night, Dead

“And then he smiled at me, and he was Jeremiah again. Susannah’s boy, sunshine and smiles. Her little angel.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Smile, Boy

“The angel brought you back."
"Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for me."
"But I dont want anything else in the world. I love you. I would do it again. I would ask for you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love, World

“This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Question, Thinking

“Can I take advantage of you in the limo?” His eyes laughed at me. “By all means, angel mine.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

“I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Question

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Birth, Thinking

“I am obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything i've ever wanted or needed, everything i've dreamed of. You're everything. I live and breathe you. For you.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Variant: I'm obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything I've ever wanted or needed, everything I've ever dreamed of. You're everything. I live and breathe you. For you.
Source: Reflected in You

Dreams

“Death Makes Angels of us all.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Death

“He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'
I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?'
'Inside.'
It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.”

Jerry Spinelli book Milkweed

Source: Milkweed

Happiness, Past

“Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince