Shadow Quotes

2258 quotes by 1422 authors

For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head… — William Shakespeare
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we… — Annie Dillard
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they… — William Wordsworth
A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow. — Winston Churchill
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its… — Robert H. Jackson
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. — George Eliot
The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,… — Charles Lamb
Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you. — Robert Collier
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better… — Confucius
Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle. — Karel Capek
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness,… — Aristophanes
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and… — Edwin Powell Hubble
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite… — Jean Genet
I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your playfulness is the… — Rajneesh
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of… — Leonardo da Vinci
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow… — Phyllis Bottome
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. — Joseph Joubert

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