Shadows Quotes

941 Shadows quotes by 659 unique authors

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 roadsideâ€”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 morningâ€”first fallen flake of the coming snows of ageâ€”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
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of… — Jacques Barzun
... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… — Wallace Stegner
We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound,… — Stephen Vincent Benet
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die. — Katherine Anne Porter
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than… — Georges Duhamel

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