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Shadow Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- 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…
- Fantastic shadows of birds
- Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,…
- The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
- Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left…
- Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
- Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is…
- I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
- I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the…
- I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so…
- You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved…
- What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
More Shadow Quotes
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot
- What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Wendell Berry
- A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — 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