Shadow Quotes

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In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow… — Arthur Eddington
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands… — John Milton
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light — Sallust
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow. — Keri Hulme
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a… — Virginia Woolf
The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was… — William Faulkner
Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim. — Jules Renard
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because… — Swami Vivekananda
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry
What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that… — Helen Keller
The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow. — Diogenes
Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything… — Walt Whitman
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is… — Charles Dickens
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H.G. Wells
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less… — Ezra Cornell
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great… — Martin Luther
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs… — Pietro Aretino
Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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