Shadow Quotes

The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

Because of Obama ... dreamers who are American in every way except on paper, no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.

I would never be happy with just coming to TV tapings, not working house shows, and just getting by, staying in the shadows. I'm proud of the fact that I can turn chickenshit to chicken salad.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

...I am the immense shadow of my tears

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?