Shadow Killing

Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or killing:

    “But country folks who live beneath
    The shadow and the steeple;
    The parson and the parson’s wife,
    And mostly married people;”
    —Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)

    “Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
    And stab my spirit broad awake;
    Or, Lord, if too obdurate I,
    Choose thou, before that spirit die,
    A piercing pain, a killing sin,
    And to my dead heart run them in!”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)