Shadow Quotes

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

The beauty of life are women, no one loves them as much as me. I adore them all, the ugly, the beautiful, the cold, the sexy and especially those that are from cinema material, shadow and light.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

Like a shadow, I am and I am not.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

I sit in thy shadow but not alone.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.