Shadow Quotes · Page 11

The first light had cast the first shadow.

— Grant Morrison

“I go to see the shadow you have become.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Word is a shadow of a deed.

— Democritus

Im in a shadow will you be there?

— Anonymous

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

— Meher Baba

Light is the shadow of God.

— Thomas Browne

Fantastic shadows of birds

— Oscar Wilde

“Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)”

— Orlando Figes

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

— Aesop

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

— Winston Churchill

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

— Virginia Woolf

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

— Sophocles

Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

— Gavin Extence

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

— George Foreman

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

— Anonymous

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

— Horace

Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy.

— Richard Corliss

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in…

— Anonymous

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

— Sydney Schanberg

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed…

— Kiran Desai

I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are.

— Angela Rayner

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura”

— Haruki Murakami

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows…

— Philip Pullman

The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight…

— Minna Antrim

So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's…

— Marina Keegan

I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking…

— Pablo Neruda

There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We…

— Charles Krauthammer

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which…

— Walter Bagehot

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and…

— Charles Dickens

Because it is only my brother and I who know what it is like to walk in the shadow and fill the…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a…

— James Freeman Clarke

“That chair -shall I ever forget it? Where the shadows fell on the canvas upholstery, stripes of a deep but glowing indigo…

— Aldous Huxley

In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols…

— Ken Wilber

For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of…

— Alex Kozinski

Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on…

— Kerry James Marshall

Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there…

— Charles Dickens

Normally we empower our demons by believing they are real and strong in themselves and have the power to destroy us. As…

— Tsultrim Allione

In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley