Alas Quote by Aeschylus

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet…

— Aeschylus

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

— Pindar

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Joanne Harris

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.

— Black Elk

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

— James Anthony Froude

The shadows draw back into honesty and love! Obey, and it will cut your throat I can't speak and you shan't be the next,…

— Children Of Bodom

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

— Euripides

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

— Jeff Cooper

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she…

— Ben Jonson

“The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out…

— Carl Jung