Shadow Quotes

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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
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
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
I am about as detailed as a shadow. — Lynda Barry
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
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. — Martha Beck
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
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. — Ambrose Bierce
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake
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
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
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
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
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
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
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
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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