Fall from Grace Quotes

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

Let a man rise to power, and he has as many virtues as will furnish an epitaph. Let him fall from power, and he has more vices than the Prodigal Son.

Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.

Mr. Van Buren is the most fallen man I have ever known.

I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

A lot of people might gawk at it, but I really love 'Revenge of the Sith' because of what happens to Anakin.

Every phenom goes down one day.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

We were innocent once. How could it have gone so bad?

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

A man is a god in ruins.

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.