Shadows Quotes

941 Shadows quotes by 659 unique authors

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Well, mi amore, this is awesome news! Let's get right on that," said Kami, and began to undo the buttons of her blouse. She looked… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to… — Kazuo Ishiguro
How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts. — Neal Shusterman
On calm days, you always think you've conquered them. You think that in the end you've finally done them in. That you've got rid of… — Guillaume Musso
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to… — Samuel Beckett
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns… — Madeline Miller
Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on… — Tan Twan Eng
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. — Aberjhani
What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze… — Andre Breton
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let… — Alan Lightman
The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like… — Zelda Fitzgerald
We are linked by our shadows, not by our light. — Jun Mochizuki
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly… — Rainer Maria Rilke
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. — Lin Yutang
Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides. — Margaret George
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home… — Friedrich Nietzsche
She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but no… — Donna Tartt
I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light,… — Maurice Blanchot
Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows") — Cassandra Clare
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha… — Arthur Golden
Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
...We are but dust and shadows... — Cassandra Clare

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