#shadow

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#good #shadow #good-and-evil

Hope strengthens. Fear kills. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#shadowfever #karen-marie-moning

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#dream #greater #hope #life #likely

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away. ↗

— Aeschylus

#alas #away #compare #dash #fortunate

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

#grasping #lose #shadow #substance #you

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#alarming #bright #bring #complacent #consequences

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#belong #body #does #inn #morning

No, I can just read you. Finally. I can't believe how blind I was. I can't believe I never noticed. Victor's comment...he was right." She glanced off at the sunset, then turned her gaze back on me. A flash of anger, both in her feelings and her eyes, hit me. "Why didn't you tell me?" she cried. "Why didn't you tell me you loved Dimitri? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #shadow-kiss #vampire-academy #anger

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

#grasping #lest #lose #shadow #substance

I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one. ↗

— Gary Allan

#behind #canyons #done #fill #home