Anguish Quote by Marcel Marceau

“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured…

— Oscar Wilde

“How is it that men create such lovely silhouettes, such shadows of the corporeal, capturing things in their most wraith-like moment and yet they…

— Anonymous

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

“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world, or any…

— Leo Tolstoy

The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man

— Tan Twan Eng

“I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends…

— Marshall McLuhan

“…It was this white garment of mourning which he still wore, the white mourning of surgical gowns so much more significant than black, since…

— Michel Leiris

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a…

— Adelbert von Chamisso

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized…

— Ala Bashir

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“He it is, if any man today possesses the gift, who knows where to dissolve the human figure, who has the courage to sacrifice…

— Henry Miller

Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life…

— R. S. Thomas