Shadow Quotes

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

I have a feeling only for shadows

Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

Fantastic shadows of birds

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing.

The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love.

The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.

... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.

I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.

I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.

I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand

my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.

Barack Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the Drive-By Media, he's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.

Where I once found it safer to stay in the background... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.