When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.
If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are, Annlaw agreed. Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.
Chapter 21 - The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968) - Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967)