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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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

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Power Quotes , Shadow Quotes

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Deeds 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

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

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

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

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Looks Quotes

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

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

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

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

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Substance 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

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

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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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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Talking Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Sun Quotes

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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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Shadow Quotes