Shadow Quotes · Page 33

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

— George Eliot

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane...

— Vladimir Nabokov

But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.

— Joanna Baillie

Never fear shadow. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

— Ruth E Renkel

“You walk in both light and shadow, and each one fits you.”

— Michayla Roth

“As the shadow mixes with the shadow, I crave for mixing with you sexually so!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

— Umberto Eco

Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.

— Carl Phillips

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Anonymous

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

— Neil Gaiman

PLEASE,be my friend and be close always:like the shadow always be good to me,be with me wherever I go.

— MOSE

The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow…

— Hermann Hesse

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence…

— William Shakespeare

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Carl Jung

God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite. The Shadow of God is the Infinite Space that accommodates the infinite Gross…

— Meher Baba

Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what…

— Terry Tempest Williams

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones…

— Winston Churchill

“The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be…

— Carl Jung

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in…

— Athol Fugard

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You…

— Shakti Gawain

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints…

— James Rollins

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have…

— Charles Dickens

I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that…

— David Starkey

Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk,…

— Anonymous

I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know…

— Carl Sandburg

“She's in the Catskill," Shopie began, but Scathach reached over and pinched her hand. "Ouch!" I just wanted to distract you," Scathach…

— Michael Scott

Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever…

— Denise Levertov

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on…

— Eric Ludy

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

— Plutarch

“What is life? It is like a shadow that appears and vanishes.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't.”

— Atul Randev

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

— Lauren Oliver

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

— Loren Eiseley

“Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I always walk alone and my shadow is the only one who walks besides me

— Anonymous

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

— Suzanne Curchod