Shadow Quotes

I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

Peace follows love energy like a shadow.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.

…a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.