Shadow Quotes

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Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows… — Virginia Woolf
The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed… — Brandon Sanderson
The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we… — Neil Armstrong
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's… — Joseph P. Allen
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The… — Leonardo da Vinci
When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Fantastic shadows of birds — Oscar Wilde
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell — J.R.R. Tolkien
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city… — Donna Tartt
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go,… — Joe Meno
I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the… — Maggie Stiefvater
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light. — Leonardo da Vinci
False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant… — John Kessel
When shadows fall and the path you walk grows dark, may the smile of God light your way. — Lance Wubbels
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under… — Cennino Cennini
One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story. — David Selby
One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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