Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of…

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

— Sarah Manguso

“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.”

— George R.R. Martin

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave…

— Bertrand Russell

I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.

— Dov Davidoff

“We all know that the inevitability of time is a shadow against our lives, a creeping knife, and yet by living fully we can…

— Sophie Crothers

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The arms industry and its powerful political friends have forged a parallel political universe that largely insulates itself against the influence or judgement of…

— Andrew Feinstein

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast…

— Bill Vaughan

“There is a Shadow World, like our own but different, existing alongside ours but never touching. Some people call it the world of dreams,…

— L.J. Smith

“What do we owe for what has come before us, the previous generation?... The problem is that we can never enter this shadow world…

— David Vann

Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.

— Franny Billingsley

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

— Thomas Carlyle

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

— Tomas Transtromer

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an…

— Marcel Marceau

Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the…

— Dallin H. Oaks