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Shadow Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
- A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of…
- I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they…
- I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it,…
- Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as…
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