Light Quote by William Butler Yeats

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

— William Butler Yeats

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

— John Flanagan

“There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these shadows as everything unpleasant in…

— Kensi Brianne Smith

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try…

— Karen Marie Moning

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,…

— William Butler Yeats

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long…

— Cassandra Clare

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

— Opal Whiteley

The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this…

— Vhils

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine