Quote by Olaf Stapledon Download Open image ““lives were spent in pursuit of shadowy ends that remained ever just round the corner.”” — Olaf Stapledon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Wherever this shadowed path might lead, we were both irrevocably committed to follow it to the end.” — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
“i thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive.” — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
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“It was funny how tangled lives could become, how so many lives could brush against you only to disappear with the dawn.” — Lisa Jackson Copy Share Image
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No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.''Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music! — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
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