(464 quotes found)
“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”
Ralph Ellison
“If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.”
Chinese Proverbs
“I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies”
“Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow”
Joseph Conrad
“May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep y”
Irish Blessings
“Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.”
Jerome K. Jerome
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
William Shakespeare
“And I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
T.S. Eliot
“It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst, and those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone”
Henry Vandyke
