Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Samuel Rogers

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.

Tupac Shakur

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

Sandra Bernhard

I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.

Virginia Woolf

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

Zadie Smith

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

Winston Churchill

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Nicholas Sparks

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Robert Pattinson

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

W. Somerset Maugham

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Zelda Fitzgerald

One illusion is as good as another.

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

T. S. Eliot

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

Rajneesh

Illusions are bound to be shattered

Richard Beymer

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Roger Zelazny

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.