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

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Clouds Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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

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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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

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You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

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

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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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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Allies 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

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Dawn Quotes

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

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Deeds Quotes

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Evil Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

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Tags : Al-Ghazali Quotes , Shadow Quotes , World Quotes

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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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

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

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Flying Quotes , Shadow Quotes