Quote

Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

Dan Brown

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dan Brown
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 22
Author
Journalist
Musician
Novelist
Prosaist
Teacher
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
Daniel Gerhard Brown
Battle
Conquered
Enemy
Demons
Matter
Guardian
Interchangeable
Identical
Archetypes
Perceived
Polarity
Demon
Destroyer
Angels
Archetype
Angel
Destroyers

More quotes by Dan Brown

Image
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
Dan Brown
Image
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.
Dan Brown
Image
As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.
Dan Brown
Image
Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.
Dan Brown
Image
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.
Dan Brown
Image
All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.
Dan Brown
Image
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
Dan Brown
Image
Today is today. But there are many tomorrows
Dan Brown
Image
Cardinal Baggia, the killer hissed. Have you prayed yet? The Italian's eyes were fearless. Only for your soul.
Dan Brown
Image
Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.
Dan Brown
Image
We are the masters of our own universe.
Dan Brown
Image
This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
Dan Brown
Image
The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.
Dan Brown
Image
Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.
Dan Brown
Image
Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.
Dan Brown
Image
Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology
Dan Brown
Image
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non - fiction - histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.
Dan Brown
Image
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes
Dan Brown
Image
When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.
Dan Brown
Image
Madness breeds madness.
Dan Brown