shadows Quotes

“Some there are among us who sing that the Shadow will draw back, and peace shall come again. Yet I do not believe that the world about us will ever again be as it was of old, or the light of the Sun as it was aforetime.”

“In front of him he distinguished a shadowy figure, motionless. ‘Wilbur Mercer! Is that you?’ My god, he realized; it’s my shadow.”

“My shadow calleth me? What matter about my shadow! Let it run after me! I—run away from it.”

“I am not so infatuate as to grasp The shadow when I hold the substance fast.”

“Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?”

“Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.”

“Thy soul is by vile fear assail’d, which oft So overcasts a man, that he recoils From noblest resolution, like a beast At some false semblance in the twilight gloom.”

“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.”

“The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.”

“This was a place of deep silence and brooding shadows, and the gods who lived here had no names.”

“The most dangerous kind of person ... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.”

“There is no sun without the shadow, and it is essential to know the night. The absurd man says yes and his efforts will henceforth be unceasing.”

“God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”

“If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”