Fantastic shadows of birds

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

— Oscar Wilde

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge…

— Oscar Wilde

“From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton…

— Oscar Wilde

“From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton…

— Oscar Wilde

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

— Oscar Wilde

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

— Oscar Wilde

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try…

— Karen Marie Moning

“There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these shadows as everything unpleasant in…

— Kensi Brianne Smith

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

— Robert Plant

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

— John Flanagan

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

— Hugh Howey

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are…

— Anonymous