Charles Dickens Quotes

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.

So that's the ghost you been running from.

There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.

Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing.

When I was a kid I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really, something that was almost see-through but it just moved in front of me. It was definitely something you could tell was there, and it really freaked me out. I think I was probably 10, and I ran all the way home.

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.