“For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.”

“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

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well….”

René Magritte (1898–1967) Belgian surrealist artist

“Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

“It's all right to make mistakes, you're only human
Inside everybody's hiding something.”

Dido (1971) English singer-songwriter

“We will all wake up semi-angels,
If we wake at all.”

Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer

“The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“Angel, a crowd of millions couldn’t hide you from me. I found you once. I’ll always find you.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

“… the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer