Shadow Quotes

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him.

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

You think the shadow is the substance.

And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

A child can escape the shadows.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.

The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.

To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side, your shadow self, and you've now joined as one.

Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

We are but dust and shadows.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.

We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.