Charles Dickens Quotes, Mirrors 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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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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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Pain Quotes , Shadow 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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

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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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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Mind Quotes , Shadow Quotes

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , God Quotes , Shadow Quotes

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Skins Quotes

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

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore 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

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

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

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Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Moon Quotes , Shadow Quotes

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fear Quotes , Shadow Quotes

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Fall Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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

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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

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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

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Light Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Reign Quotes