Shadowy Quotes

88 quotes by 80 authors

My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a… — Isabel Allende
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained… — Wilkie Collins
Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Life knows us not and we do not know lifeâ€”-we donâ€™t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever… — Joseph Conrad
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms… — Walker Percy
Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world. — Jane Yolen
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the… — Richard Matheson
Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the… — Michelle Moran
â€¢"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its… — Gustave Flaubert
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the… — Meghan O'Rourke
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that… — Virginia C. Andrews
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must… — Victor Hugo
I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else… — C.S. Lewis
I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in… — Edgar Allan Poe
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in… — Ingmar Bergman
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly… — William James
Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both… — Dogen
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each… — Edward Snowden

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