Figures Quote by Wallace Stevens

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

— William Shakespeare

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

— Robert E. Howard

Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear…

— William Butler Yeats

“They came silently as ghosts themselves, swept along like leaves being scattered about them in the scurrying east wind. Yet their running forms seemed…

— David Clement-Davies

“They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out…

— Cormac McCarthy

The hidden secrets, the swirling whispers in the dark, those shadows of the past, faintly whispering a dark path once tread.

— Rachel

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

— Stephen King

The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from…

— Charles Dickens

“Time had twisted the stream’s contour, reshaped the profile of the trees and obscured the old paths. The very lie of the land appeared…

— Andrew Caldecott

“All the Spirits of the Winter Realm, that just a moment earlier hustled around the Shifters as small balls of fire, were now in…

— Angela Orlowski-Peart

“One by one the lights burned out, like long lives come to their expected ends. Then there was a dark house made once of…

— John Crowley

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

— Alexis de Tocqueville