Shadow Quotes
2258 quotes by 1422 authors
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us.…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and…
— Walter Bagehot
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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
— Lynda Barry
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
— Martha Beck
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow…
— Joseph Addison
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the…
— Wendell Berry
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A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of…
— Annie Besant
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
— William Blake
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It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
— Aesop
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I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if…
— Emily Blunt
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for…
— Dan Brown
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids…
— Dan Brown
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those…
— Pearl S. Buck
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