Shadow Quotes · Page 17

“Only the virtuous man jumps over his shadow.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

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

— Phillip Lopate

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

— Anonymous

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

— Sylvia Plath

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

— Juliet Marillier

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

— Terry Pratchett

“In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

— Al-Ghazali

If you were to just slap together Six of Crows' and Shadow and Bone,' it really wouldn't work.

— Leigh Bardugo

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own…

— Jane Hirshfield

War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry…

— Suheir Hammad

Fake friends are like shadows, they follow you in the sun, but leave your side when it gets dark.

— Anonymous

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

— Vicki Lewis Thompson

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

— Carl Jung

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you.…

— George R. R. Martin

Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker…

— Maynard James Keenan

“Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow. I won't…

— Abbi Glines

Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power…

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her…

— Rachel Holmes

“Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find a shadow in the night? I guess that’s why so many people…

— Eiry Nieves

When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of…

— Timothy Shay Arthur

My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in…

— Anonymous

I went to film school and studied Alfred Hitchcock. I knew of Alma Reville existence, but had no idea really who she…

— Sacha Gervasi

In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists…

— John Walford

You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the…

— Stephen King

Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass…

— Vincent Van Gogh

You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of…

— Conrad Aiken

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended…

— Anonymous

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

— John Lyly

Your dreams become illusion when you are working in the opposite with your shadow.

— Vikrant Parsai

A shadow is here. The shadow with heart. And, a shadow is coming of sun

— Mayte

The shadows are only the darkest when the light is at its brightest.

— Glenn Beck

“Thank you, Liam. Thank you for being my shadow. Thank you for being my friend.”

— Rebecca Yarros

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

— Theodore Dreiser

Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

— Edmund Burke