Best dream & shadow Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.”

Soul God Dream Law Strange Shadow And Love Breaths Chains Broke Cycles Life And Love Nursing Laws Of Life Sod

Book:Evolution: A Poem

Source: Evolution: A Poem

“And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows”

Dream Shadow Kingdoms Knights

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”

Long Dream Spirit Shadow Endure Luxury Immortality Restless Restless Spirit

Book:Endymion: A Poetic Romance

Source: Endymion: A Poetic Romance

“There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.”

Stories Dream Shadow Only Love

Author:Vera Nazarian

“The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.”

Men Dream Turns Sky Bed Shadow Stones Milk Bricks Purple Carts Misty Thin Man

Book:Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

Source: Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

“A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.”

Knows World Dream Light Care Law Existence Darkness Shadow Unity Tragic Division Waking Twilight Nothingness Reconciliation Flawless Uncompromising Dialectics

Author:Michel Foucault

“Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.”

Men Mind Real Dream Form Wish Ego Shadow Essence Substance Immortal Form And Substance

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands

“Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.”

Knows Dream Enemy Son Shadow Flesh Your Dreams My Son

Book:The Devil's Arithmetic

Source: The Devil's Arithmetic

“What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!”

World Dream Pain Poor This World Shadow Labor Mere This Life Vain

Book:Heaven On Earth

Source: Heaven On Earth

“An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.”

Men Doe Dream Life Is Actors Sound Memories Shadow Clouds Echoes Finest Another Man Translators

Author:Fanny Kemble

“How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.”

Men Littles Dream Young Water Sea Shadow Blue Lays Pursue Thrown Shade Bark

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

“We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.”

Heart Real Dream Reality Seems Emotion Shadow Eternity Real Life Substance Touched

Book:Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source: Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne

“But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.”

Real Dream Form Found Events Shadow

Book:The election. Ethwald. The second marriage

Source: The election. Ethwald. The second marriage

“dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.”

Mind May Country Dream Shadow Eternity Edges Confusion Nerves Refuge Sanctuary Cowardly Actual Life

Book:Fantastic Traveller

Source: Fantastic Traveller

“I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people about their weirdest dreams and the strangest, most inexplicable experiences they've had. All this information whirls around in my mind, and new dreams emerge that form the seeds of stories and novels.”

People Mind Stories Dream Form Desire Novel Information Shadow Inspired Seeds Obsession Collectors Inexplicable

Author:Storm Constantine

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