#shadow

A song she heard Of cold that gathers Like winter's tongue Among the shadows It rose like blackness In the sky That on volcano's Vomit rise A Stone of ruin From burn to chill Like black moonrise Her voice fell still... ↗

— Robert Fanney

#elf #elves #fantasy #luthiel #magic

Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good. ↗

— Vaddey Ratner

#nature

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

— Aesop

#grasping #lest #lose #shadow #substance

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#idea #live #shadow #without

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#attempt #british #circle #could #daring

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. ↗

— James Shirley

#armour #blood #crooked #crown #death