“No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
You are deceived, my substance is not here;”
Source: Henry VI, Part 1
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
The Dog and the Shadow.
“Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.”
Sidney Sheldon book Memories of Midnight
Source: Memories of Midnight
“I am the immense shadow of my tears”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
“The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.”
Stephen Johnson Field (1816–1899) American politician
Cummings v. State of Missouri, 71 U. S. 277, 325 (1866).
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died, as quoted in Calculusː Multivariable (2006) by Steven G. Krantz and Brian E. Blank. p. 126
Unsourced variant: I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
“I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.”
Angela Carter book The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Source: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
“I am that shadow on the threshold
defending my remnant peace.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
Poem without a Hero (1963)
Context: Dread. Bottomless dread...
I am that shadow on the threshold
defending my remnant peace.
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
Quoted in John Dewey and American Democracy by Robert Westbrook (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 440; cited in Understanding Power http://www.understandingpower.com/Chapter9.htm#f16| (2002) by Noam Chomsky, ch. 9, footnote 16; originally from "The Need for a New Party" (1931) by John Dewey, Later Works 6, http://books.google.com/books?id=0xPFJ2uwpbIC&lpg=PA163&ots=dd3ciwpXoJ&dq=%22shadow%20cast%22%20dewey&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false| p. 163. (Via Westbrook.) <br class="br">Misc. Quotes
