Danielle Trussoni Quotes

Every angel is terrifying.

Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.

Millions of angels are at God's command.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness.

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.

I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

Because we're not as serious about terrorism as we can be, people all across the globe feel like they can just murder innocent people.

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

So many horrid Ghosts.

The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literature. It's still out there, and people are still interested. Even in the more secular way, books about angels are everywhere.

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?