Aeschylus Quotes, Men Quotes, Shadow Quotes

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

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Perception 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

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

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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

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

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Shadow Quotes

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

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

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

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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

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

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

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)

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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

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

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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Death Quotes , Shadow Quotes

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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