Angels

Famous quotes containing the word angels:

“We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 16:19-22.

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