“How slow the Shadow creeps: but when 'tis past,
How fast the Shadows fall. How fast! How fast!”

“Night falls fast. Today is in the past.”

“In the study of history, slowness is an advantage. The scholar decelerates the fast-moving events of past days until his mind can fathom them. Then… he can demonstrate to the rashest king how he should have acted in battle.”

“Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.”

“But God will know the slow tread of an old couple’s love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.”

“Events cast long shadows before.
One such event would be a war.
But how are shadows to be seen
When total darkness fills the screen?”

“Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it”

“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.”

“If I could only impress on the soul of every friend of music, and on high personages in particular, how inimitable are Mozart's works, how profound, how musically intelligent, how extraordinarily sensitive! (for this is how I understand them, how I feel them) — why then the nations would vie with each other to possess such a jewel within their frontiers. Prague should hold him fast — but should reward him, too: for without this, the history of great geniuses is sad indeed, and gives but little encouragement to posterity to further exertions; and unfortunately this is why so many promising intellects fall by the wayside.”

“How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.”