#shadow

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#nightmares #shadows #life

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#self #shadow #life

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night. ↗

— Joe Meno

#shadows #vanishing #life

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#almost #begun #cooled #disappear #eager

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. ↗

— George Schultz

#bargaining #capitulation #cast #euphemism #negotiations

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#display #fellow #fellow creatures #like #love

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. ↗

— Sophocles

#i see #images #insubstantial #live #nothing

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow. ↗

— Sophocles

#i see #live #more #nothing #phantoms

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. ↗

— George Steiner

#genius #light #man #ordinary #ordinary man

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#although #am #basically #colour #consider