Shadows Quotes
941 Shadows quotes by 659 unique authors
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A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is:…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not…
— Margaret Atwood
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I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only…
— Karen Chance
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I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all…
— Garth Ennis
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Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident.…
— George R. R. Martin
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...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what…
— James Hillman
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Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be…
— Ray Bradbury
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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.
— Mark Twain
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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…
— Haruki Murakami
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You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with…
— Robert Jordan
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You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.
— Meg Cabot
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still…
— Hal Borland
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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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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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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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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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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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To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud…
— O.R. Melling
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I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his…
— John Connolly
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