Alas Quote by Aeschylus

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge…

— Aeschylus

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

— Pindar

“There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their…

— George Eliot

If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

— Augustus William Hare

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows…

— Ray Bradbury

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

— Anonymous

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

— Joanne Harris

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

— John Locke

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

— James Anthony Froude

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

— Conrad Hall

The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

— Confucius