We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. ( We are but dust and shadow. )”

— Horace

“Ode 4.7 Diffugere niues, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribus comae; mutat terra uices et decrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet…

— Horace

“Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra”

— Megan Chance

“Pulvis et umbra sumus - we are but dust and shadows”

— Cassandra Clare

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

— Cassandra Clare

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for…

— Sherwood Anderson

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star.…

— Victor Hugo

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long…

— Cassandra Clare

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…

— Sylvia Plath

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of…

— Anna Akhmatova

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Veiled by the dust of its own passing.”

— Cameron Rogers

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley