Shadows Quotes

941 Shadows quotes by 659 unique authors

I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves… — Junichiro Tanizaki
Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows. — Allison Brennan
Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over. — Israel Shamir
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the… — Ella Leya
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun… — Thomas Browne
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all… — Pippa Middleton
How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which… — L. Ron Hubbard
There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling… — L. Ron Hubbard
This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too… — James Michael
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial… — Aberjhani
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested,… — Chris Johnson
Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul,… — Robert Montgomery
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose... — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent,… — Louis Bromfield
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like… — Mary C. Ames
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the… — Henry David Thoreau
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing… — Charles Dickens
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a… — Alexander Smith
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others. — William Hazlitt
A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. — Homer
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide… — Andre Gide
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the… — Eric Temple Bell
Man is a substance clad in shadows. — John Sterling

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