Best shadow & men Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.”

“The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.”

Men Mean Littles Suffering Pleasure Knowing Bird Shadow Wings Careful Melody Rome Eagles Giddy

Author:William Shakespeare

“The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.”

“What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.”

Men Way I Can Ideas Different Use Next Vision Objects Color Painting Elements Shadow Casts My Way Originality Fuse

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?”

Men Stills Seems Shadow Court Deny Pursue Mistress Wooing

Author:Ben Jonson

“Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.”

Source: ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more

“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.”

“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.”

Ifs Men Wells Poor Destiny Shadow Wet Strokes Alas Wipe Poor Man Unkind Sponges

Book:Aeschylus II: The Oresteia

Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia

“I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.”

Men Way Believe Children Real Faces Fighting Sex Ability Danger Thousand Shadow Fairs Charm Frightened Hiding Ratios Unafraid Inverse Prowess Hiding In The Shadows

Book:Under the Moons of Mars

Source: Under the Moons of Mars

“Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?”

Men Common Sun Shadow Institutions Lowest Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.”

Men Mean Used Purpose Moral Shadow Holiday Faculty Earnest Splendour

Book:Pt. 6-9 of leaf beauty. of cloud beauty. of ideas of relation

Source: Pt. 6-9 of leaf beauty. of cloud beauty. of ideas of relation

“No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.”

Men Way Feels Felt Walks Duty Lovers Truth Is Shadow Immortality Valleys Everlasting Martyr Steep Calvary Shadow Of Death

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.”

Men Kind Military Ready Broken Arms Scene Skills Shadow Staff Dependence Militia Domestic Life

Book:Words of Washington

Source: Words of Washington

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“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.”

“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.”

“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

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“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

“In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.”

“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

“God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Mind Heart Soul God Home Father Possibility Judging Judgment Shadow Drawing Regions Valleys His Love Knowledge Of God Way Home Shadow Of Death

Author:George MacDonald

“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)

“Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.”

Men Evil Shadow Substance Hostile Inseparable

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.”

Men States Reality Government Individual Existence Creation Ignorance Devil Shadow Reflexes Ignorance And Fear Creation Of Man

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.”

Men Shadow Gazing

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.”

Men Past Order Modern Shadow Remains Thrown Unemployment Modern Society

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.”

Men Soul Sometimes Light Night Faith Stars Walks Genius Lows Glory Shadow Shining Deeper Evening Valleys Shadow Of Death

Book:Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?”

Source: Christologia Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in the Contrivance and Constitution Thereof ...

“What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!”

Men World Turns Fall Gratitude Shadow Woods Debt Noble Forests Admiration Utility Turmoil Glitter Debt Of Gratitude

Book:Rural Hours

Source: Rural Hours

“A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.”

Men Differences Tree Objects Painting Shadow Casts Fountain Sculpture

Author:Benvenuto Cellini

“Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow.”

Men Want May Doe Soul Moving Shadow Weight Depth Brilliant Great Things Entertaining Really Great Earnestness

Book:Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin

Source: Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin

“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.”