The life of truth is cold. Auteur: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.” “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity,…” “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn” “Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying…”