Shadows

Famous quotes containing the word shadows:

    “Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)

    “The One remains, the many change and pass;
    Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly;
    Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
    Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
    Until Death tramples it to fragments.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Like strange mechanical grotesques,
    Making fantastic arabesques,
    The shadows raced across the blind.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)