Shadow Quotes
2258 quotes by 1362 authors
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Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little room…
— Unknown Author
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dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets
— Elizabeth Chandler
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Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow.…
— David Gemmell
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The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
— George R. R. Martin
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The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.
— John Green
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I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when…
— Jean Rhys
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Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last.…
— Christine Feehan
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S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street bare of any…
— John Flanagan
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I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under…
— Maya Angelou
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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall…
— Pablo Neruda
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You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
— Amelia Earhart
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and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.
— Victor Davis Hanson
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His black eyes sliced into me, and the corners of his mouth tilted up. My heart fumbled a bit and in that pause, a feeling…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the…
— John Muir
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Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)
— Erin Hunter
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My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of…
— Iain Banks
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Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.
— David Clement-Davies
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