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“If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame's illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time.”

Ifs Men May Mean Light Seems Figures Wall Fame Shadow Sight Giants Canvas Sublime Stalking Mould Silhouettes

Author:John Townsend Trowbridge

“Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.”

Knows Moments Remember Happened Color Shadow That Moment Rest Of Your Life

Author:Martin Amis

“In our eyes the roads are endless. Two are crossroads of the shadow.”

Two Eye Shadow Endless Crossroads

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“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.”

Stills Ends Depends Shadow Empty Copies Cheated Morrow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

“Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows”

Knows Wells Lines Shadow Complicated Toes

Author:Elvis Costello

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?”

Men Wells Whole Shadow Accounts Astonishment

Author:Djuna Barnes

“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!”

Age Together Shadow Ice Providence Monument

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.”

Reality Seems Age Fall Grows Loses Path Shadow Drawing Senses Old Age Reality Of Life Crude Poignancy

Book:Stories and Legends

Source: Stories and Legends

“Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue”

Soul Feelings Causes Trouble Shadow Blue Clock Climbs Twelve Avenues Stairs Strolling All Alone Feeling Blue

Author:Billy Rose

“A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.”

Knows Men World Mean Reason Seems Lost Loss Teaching This World Losing Shadow Reason Why Vanishing

Author:Orville Dewey

“Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.”

Light Stars Voice Dark Sleep Laughing Shadow Rays Far Away Pale Astrology Sorcery

Book:He, the One who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

Source: He, the One who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

“Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow mild, love is with kinder looks beguiled, and Grief forgets her fondly cherish'd wound; oh, whither hast thou flown, indulgent god? God of kind shadows and of healing dews, whom dost thou touch with thy Lethaean rod? Around whose temples now thy opiate airs diffuse?”

Source: Poetical Works of Akenside

“Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes adjust to the needs of men by transforming and masking themselves. Because of that it is not fundamental. That is about what endures, what is unique, what is in the stream of illusions - what is eliminated from the workings of the shadows.”

Men Way Needs Matter Form Mass Unique Illusion Shadow Fundamentals Endure Appearance Streams Transforming Subordinates

Book:On My Painting - Max Beckmann

Source: On My Painting - Max Beckmann

“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!”

Evil Known Objects Shadow Perceive Visible Folly Flats Abolish

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“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

“We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.”

Courses Stuff Bits Dark White Party Trouble Shadow Tiny Heal Ignorant Tea Primitive White Supremacy Tea Party Supremacy Weird Stuff

Author:Anne Lamott

“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

“Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.”

Heart Night Wonderful Heard Crazy Havens My Heart Moon Shadow Lonely Green Flight Covered Valleys Lanes Gypsy Wisps Skylarks

Author:Johnny Mercer

“All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.”

Men Mother Jesus Christ Boys Written Shadow Jesus Christ Goddess Womb Tissues

Author:Camille Paglia

“Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing.”

World Play Speak Shadow Vanity One Word

Author:Owen Feltham

“God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite. The Shadow of God is the Infinite Space that accommodates the infinite Gross Sphere which, with its occurrences of millions of universes, within and without the ranges of men's knowledge, is the Creation that issued from the Point of Finiteness in the infinite Existence that is God.”

Men Universe Space Existence Millions Creation Shadow Infinite Range Spheres Gross Accommodate Infinite Space

Book:The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

Source: The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

“The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.”

World Earth Water Divine Wall Cold Kissing Shadow Rose Winter Yellow Bent Alas Ponds Swans

Author:Friedrich Holderlin

“In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.”

“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”

Years May Moments Reality Might Would Be Able Past Stage Development Shapes Capable Hundred Shadow Complaining Glimpse Mourn Traveller Disappearance Insensitive Stages Of Development

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.”

Book Country Running Water Lines Break Sea Feet Land Rocks Proud Shadow Green Wings Wave Flight Hills Giants Shore Pale Pauses Glances Eagles Fling Compact

Book:The Herries Chronicles

Source: The Herries Chronicles

“Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.”

“Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.”

Art Culture Left Language Magic Shadow Theater Theatre Limitation Appropriate Shattered

Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.”

Seems White Paper Shadow Charm Sparkle White Paper Etching

Author:Samuel Palmer

“I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.”

Men Believe Would Be Fame Projects Shadow Excellence Substance

Book:.) (1850).

Source: .) (1850).

“Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.”

World Moments Together Beautiful Shadow And Love Grateful Forgotten Happiness And Love Beautiful Experiences Onassis

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.”

Done Care Lying Sun Shadow Flying Pursue Follow Me Queen Of England

Author:Elizabeth I

“Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.”

“Can a woodchuck chuck wood? Because the question is, "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if," so you haven't established or proved without any shadow of a doubt that a woodchuck could chuck wood. Frankly, I believe that they chew wood. I don't think they can chuck wood at all! I take offense to the whole chucking question.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Whole Funny I Believe Doubt Havens Shadow Woods Offense Chuck Woodchucks

Author:Tim Allen

“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.”

Life Moments Life Is Doors Movement Arms Shadow Seasons Edges Legs Autumn Delicate Rapids Closing Autumn Days Snowfall Closing Doors

Author:Alan Lightman

“In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.”

Believe I Believe Accepting Honest Solutions Shadow Chosen Welcome Cabinets

Author:Edward Heath

“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

“Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.”

Feels Mind Sides Silence Wall Shadow Breaking Down Lifting

Author:Cat Stevens

“When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.”

Writing Said Girl House Given Shadow Let Me Aids Kitchen Staying Chinks

Book:Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays

Source: Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays

“I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.”

Source: Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author

“A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.”

Grows Parent Tree Shadow

Book:Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower

“All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations... Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: 'Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.”

“Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.”

Long Truth Wind Truth Is Shadow Breaths Touched Pursued Garments Phantoms Hem

Book:War Is Kind and Other Poems

Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems

“Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?”

Should Wells Reason Earth Beautiful Planets Shadow Agree

Book:The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

Source: The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

“I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me”

Want Sleep Darkness Youth Flower Shadow Wake Up Invisible Sunshine Hiding Waking Ecstatic Hiding In The Shadows

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“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

“And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.”

Long Doors Pure Shadow Sticks Rings Warning Bells Leper

Author:Conor Oberst

“In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.”

World Middle Century Shadow Europe Spain Gloomy Chilled Incubus

Book:France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.”

Wells Book Ideas Four Information Concepts Shadow Infinite Evolve Dimensions Rough Times Approximation

Author:Dan Simmons

“To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.”

Has Beens Pain Jesus Names Dying Tears Divine Bed Glory Shadow Flow Lips Circles Dust Touched Shore Valleys Physicians Multitudes Weeping Celestial Sufferers Comforter

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.”

Deals Shadow Constitution Substance

Author:Stephen Johnson Field