Quotes by Shadow 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! Thomas Brooks shadowpaindream Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Thomas Campion shadowflyingdying Coming events cast their shadows before. Thomas Campbell sunsetshadowevents Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. Thomas Campion shadowunhappysun Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. Thomas Browne shadowhalfbrother Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross. Thomas Brooks shadowchristianfear Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light. Terry Pratchett shadowlightlong The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow. Thomas a Kempis shadowmendeath Light is but the shadow of God. Thomas Browne shadowlight Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art Thomas Aquinas shadowlyingart Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. Thomas Carlyle shadowspeechmen Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? Thomas Huxley shadowlawmind How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me? Thomas Merton shadowmindthinking I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. Thomas Huxley shadowhalfthinking A flatterer is the shadow of a fool. Thomas Overbury flatteryfoolshadow You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted. Thomas Steinbeck growing-upshadowlight Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed. Thomas Carlyle shadowevilmen To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light. Thomas William Parsons shadowlightsight Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing. Thomas Merton shadowworshipmen ... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have to use not a shadow but a sign, not the limitation but the image. The image is a new and different reality, and of course it does not convey an impression of some object, but the mind of the subject; and that is something else again. Thomas Merton shadowmindreality«4950515253545556575859»
