Shadow Quotes
Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.
Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.
You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.
To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall
Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!
It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.
Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.
It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.
To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow