Shadow Quotes

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

The shadows are as important as the light.

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

You're not only the spotlight in which you perform, but the shadows where you practice.

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the bogeyman.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.

What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?

If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.

only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole