Shadowy Quotes

88 Shadowy quotes by 80 unique authors

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
Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
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
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
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
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
The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects. — Laozi
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
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. — Jon Ronson
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
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. — John Milton
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
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
Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light… — Madison Cawein
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs… — H P Lovecraft
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. — Rachel Carson
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. — Rachel Carson
When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet. — Maurice Thompson
Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made… — Alicia Keys
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The… — Eric Liu
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? — Edgar Allan Poe
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then… — Haruki Murakami

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