Awful Quote by Charles Dickens

“It had begun to be present to him after the first fortnight, it had broken out with the oddest abruptness, this particular wanton wonderment:…

— Henry James

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he…

— Henry David Thoreau

“His shadow splayed out huge before him, and his mind gleamed with ancient wars and winged beings, a mountain of melted demon bones and…

— Laini Taylor

“Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there; but these were his…

— Charles Dickens

“Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every tiny movement…

— Neil Gaiman

“Then shadows and shapes, shrouded figures, appeared to join him, apparitions, ancient, mythical faces, wise and beautiful, like holy ghosts, shimmering around around him,…

— Peter McKinnon

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing:…

— Anonymous

“There were times when he confronted his own image as a man confronts an empty valley, and the vision propelled him forward again to…

— John le Carré

“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies, moved in…

— Victor Hugo

“In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he saw, with…

— Victor Hugo

“The shadows that lingered in the corners of the large chamber were a reflection of what he felt inside—an empty shell of darkness. Of…

— L.G. Castillo

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and…

— Charles Dickens