Shadows Quotes

941 Shadows quotes by 659 unique authors

Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat. — Franny Billingsley
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods!… — Vladimir Nabokov
The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows. — Steven Wright
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph] — Johannes Kepler
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets. — Susanna Clarke
Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality. — Anais Nin
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one… — Jacquelyn Mitchard
You can only come to the morning through the shadows. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me… — Hermann Hesse
Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at… — Michael Marshall Smith
We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in… — Shirley Jackson
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the… — Christina Rossetti
The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows… — Richard Yates
Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door. — Terry Goodkind
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. — Wilkie Collins
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is… — Oscar Wilde
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki,… — Neil Gaiman
I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it!… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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