Shadow Killing

Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or killing:

“When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)