Shadow Quotes

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There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and… — Joe Abercrombie
Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken.… — Joe Abercrombie
Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion. — Wole Soyinka
Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light… — John O'Donohue
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light,… — Alexander MacLaren
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will. — Mary Stewart
Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the… — Robin McKinley
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. — Guy de Maupassant
There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we… — Dinaw Mengestu
Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Above all shadows rides the sun. — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent… — Eugene V. Debs
Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. — Helmut Kohl
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the… — Carl Jung
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as… — Pindar
I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow… — Hans Christian Andersen
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of… — Saddam Hussein
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat. — Elizabeth Bishop
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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