Shadow Quotes

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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,… — Victor Hugo
In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night… — Thomas Gray
Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and… — Annie Dillard
Men are the dreams of a shadow. — Pindar
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings.… — James Shirley
I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is… — Owen Hart
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later… — Oscar Wilde
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild… — Joe Meno
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had… — H.G. Wells
One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And… — Winston Churchill
The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires… — Edmund Burke
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of… — Edmund Muskie
The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going… — Sean O'Casey
What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the… — Alan Ayckbourn
What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and… — Victor Hugo

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