Nathaniel Hawthorne Shadow Quotations

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.