Honore De Balzac Quotes, Pain Quotes, Shadow Quotes

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

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A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Glitter Quotes

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Tree Quotes , Shadow Quotes

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Enlightened Quotes

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Envy Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Mirrors Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Life Is Quotes

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Kind Quotes

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Shadow Quotes

The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Strong Quotes , Shadow Quotes

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Empty Quotes

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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Tags : Ad Reinhardt Quotes , Black Quotes , Shadow 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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Ice Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Throat 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

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Shadow Quotes , May Quotes

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

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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sick Quotes , Shadow 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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Ice Quotes , Shadow Quotes

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

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