Shadowy Quotes
88 quotes by 81 authors
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If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.
— Robert Browning
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Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,…
— Sara Teasdale
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To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in…
— Carlo Levi
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And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?
— Harry Kemp
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Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and…
— Huston Smith
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No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each…
— Herbert Hoover
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter…
— Oscar Wilde
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The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale,…
— Andy Warhol
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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
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The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me...
— Heinrich Heine
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The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
— Laozi
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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
— Jon Ronson
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There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
— John Milton
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Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses…
— Lucy Larcom
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The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's…
— Philip James Bailey
Who Wrote These Shadowy Quotes
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