Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
It’s been me all along,” said September slowly. “Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
There were some things I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about depression in public, I wanted to talk about… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
No one understands what it's like to walk in the shadow of a famous father, let alone Ric Flair, in the wrestling… — Charlotte Flair Copy Share Image
Now the roles have been reversed, because the Hillary [Clinton] campaign is livid that they lost, and they think they lost because… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection… — Christmas Evans Copy Share Image
There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
I want the audience to think about how many people are hiding in the shadows with the condition. I want the film… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are… — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
After investigating the UFO phenomenon all over the world, after studying thousands of pages of released government documents, and interviewing eyewitnesses and… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow. — John Green Copy Share Image
Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the… — Joseph Cornell Copy Share Image
Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Activating our light and our full potential requires that we embrace our shadow. Realizing our wholeness requires us to become big enough… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
His name's Nash." Aunt Val took a butter knife from the silverware drawer. "What year is he?" I groaned inwardly. "Senior." ...here… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image