Shadow Quotes

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

Swift as shadow, short as any dream

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

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.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.