(464 quotes found)
“This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.”
Buddha
“I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.”
Confucius
“Where there is much light, the shadow is deep”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow”
Aesop
“The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.”
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“A dream itself is but a shadow.”
William Shakespeare
“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”
Arnold H. Glasgow