„But strength alone though of the Muses bornIs like a fallen angel: trees uptorn,Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchresDelight it; for it feeds upon the burrs,And thorns of life; forgetting the great endOf poesy, that it should be a friendTo sooth the cares, and lift the thoughts of man.“

— John Keats

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„The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?“
— Jack Kerouac
„Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Through it all I learned the value of being humble to the dust, reduced to ashes. Everyone should experience that. Before you can recognize you're somebody, you have to know you're nobody. [-] The butterfly was just a lowly worm in its beginning. The worm didn't live with the moment-to-moment expectation of sprouting wings and taking flight. He lived a useful and productive life, the life of a worm. And he had to die a worm in order to be born as an angel! The spinning of the cocoon is, in and of itself, remarkable. It is as wondrous as the emergence and first flight of the butterfly.“
— Henry Miller
„The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend,Freedom is but a means to gain an end.Freedom should build the temple, but the shrineBe consecrate to thought still more divine.The human bliss which angel hopes foresawIs liberty to comprehend the law.Give, then, thy book a larger scope and frame,Comprising means and end in Truth's great name.“
— Margaret Fuller
„A pine tree standeth lonelyIn the North on an upland bare;It standeth whitely shroudedWith snow, and sleepeth there.It dreameth of a Palm treeWhich far in the East alone,In the mournful silence standethOn its ridge of burning stone.“
— Heinrich Heine