Horse Shadow Quotes

#1. your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.

Dante Alighieri

#2. To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it Listen: these are its hooves: it has gone off, like a horse.

Sylvia Plath

#4. A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

Gautama Buddha

#5. Wintery day,
On my horse
A frozen shadow.

Basho Matsuo

#6. With mouths agape, they stared in awe at the floor of fire and wall of flame. Atop a horse of golden flames that whipped and licked the leather reins, untouched by the fire that twisted and burned, sat Heimdallr, guardian of the Bilrost.

Angela B. Chrysler

#7. Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay."
The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people.

Erin Bow

#8. There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche