Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.” — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
Dont depend too much on anyone in this world. Even your shadow leaves you when youre in darkness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person. — Vicky Beeching Copy Share Image
When you're facing all the shit, nobody will be there. Even your shadow leaves you in the dark. — KM II Copy Share Image
It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don’t want to lose my memories. Don’t make me forget. I would rather die as Elena, than live as a shadow. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the… — Tony Jaa Copy Share Image
With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast… — Vhils Copy Share Image
Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What happened to that man I was seven autumns ago? What happened to that country? Time heals, yes - and thank God… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I felt as if my own personality was changing shades or even as if I had no personality. I was a blank… — R.P. Heaven Copy Share Image
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
