Apparitions Quote by Joseph Addison

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!

— Joseph Addison

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

— Plutarch

The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy glade; The…

— Reginald Heber

“Give me a companion of my way, be it only to mention how the shadows lengthen as the sun declines,' wrote Hazlitt. Pratap”

— Ruskin Bond

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us when we walk in sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into shade.”

— Bovee

“Shadow felt deeply uncomfortable: it was like watching an old wolf stalking a fawn too young to know that if it did not run,…

— Neil Gaiman

“A wolf cannot outrun its shadow.”

— Josh Lanyon

There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we…

— Rudyard Kipling

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

— William Shakespeare

“How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.”

— Peter Heller

Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for…

— Allen Tate

“Dad called this the shadow time. The sun sucks colour from the world, he'd said. He'd taught her to see the softer colours of…

— Jackie French