Shadow Quotes
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.
Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.
Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt
Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.
Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.
Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.
He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.
I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow.
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.
Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet
Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.
... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.
Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.
The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts.
Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.
My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.