Shadows

"Kuolon varjo on vain elämän sarastusta. (Zachris Topelius) (KNM)"

"There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows."

"Shadows are friends to men in black."

""The true moment of shadow is the moment in which you see the point of light in the sky. The single point, and the Shadow that has just gathered you in its sweep ..." Always remember. The first star hangs between his feet. Now —"

"The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue."

"Thus shadow owes its birth to light."

"(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade."

"Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue."

"The picture of a shadow is a positive thing."

"Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?"

"Shadows are like plants. They need sunlight simply to exist."

"Come like shadows, so depart!"

"Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss."

"Shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond."

"Chequer'd shadow."

"If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended..."

"No matter how satisfying the shade is, one must step out of it. Because if you keep staying in the shade like this, even your own shadow will abandon you."

"Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days."

"Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ."

"Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights."