Topic

Shadows

0 members

Notable quotes

“Shadows are like plants. They need sunlight simply to exist.”
— Thomas M. Disch, The Shadow, in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best Fantasy 2, p. 334 (Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December, 2001)
“There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.”
— in A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, Chapter Davos (II).
“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.”
— Edmund Burke, speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll.
“Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.”
— John Ruskin, Painting.
“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.”
— Sanu Sharma, Differences
“Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ.”
— And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

No public IJR answers mention Shadows yet. As people ask about it and share their answers, they'll appear here.

“Shadows are like plants. They need sunlight simply to exist.”
— Thomas M. Disch, The Shadow, in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best Fantasy 2, p. 334 (Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December, 2001)
“There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.”
— in A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, Chapter Davos (II).
“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.”
— Edmund Burke, speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll.
“Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.”
— John Ruskin, Painting.
“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.”
— Sanu Sharma, Differences
“Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ.”
— And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.