Shadow Quotes

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

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?

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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

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

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

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.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

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.

Cam stepped into the clearing. His eyes were rimmed with a thick, shimmering gold shadow, and it shone on his face in the moonlight, making him look like a wildcat.

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.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

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

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.

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

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

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

Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

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.

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

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

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

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

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

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

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?

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

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

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.

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

Fake friends are like shadows. They follow you in the sun and leave you in the dark.

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.