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Shadow Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then…
- My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.
- Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like…
- What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
- I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense…
- That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know…
- My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set…
- Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird?…
- Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light…
- Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a…
- And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too…
- I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.
- The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
- You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may…
More Shadow Quotes
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot
- What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- I am about as detailed as a shadow. — Lynda Barry
- To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag… — Jean Baudrillard
- I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. — Martha Beck
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
- In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry
- A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant
- Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. — Ambrose Bierce
- Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake