Aeschylus Quotes, Clouds Quotes, Shadow Quotes

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

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Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

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There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

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Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

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Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

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The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

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What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

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Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Shadow Quotes , My Love For You Quotes

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Desire Quotes

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Shadow Quotes , World Quotes

I am almost equal to a shadow.

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In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

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Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

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I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Comfort Quotes

I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

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