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Shadow Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud…
- 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…
- An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing…
- Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
- We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,…
- With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
- All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
- Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
- Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
- Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
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