Shadow Quotes
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Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.
Emil Cioran
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!
Vladimir Nabokov
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There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.
Charles Dickens
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But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.
Gautama Buddha
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I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.
Sandra Bernhard
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Jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.
Ayala Malakh-Pines
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When You Are In The Light, Everything
Follows You, But When You Enter Into
The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow
Doesn't Follow You.
Adolf Hitler
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When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears,
That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.
Kate Tempest
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That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth nigher With each dawn and every day, Through the earthquake and the fire 'Love will find out the way.'
Alfred Noyes
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To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow
William Jenkyn
