Best 1022 quotes in «shadow quotes» category

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.

There are moments when we all step away from the light...

There is absolutely nothing that can harm the shadow. Nothing. I advise you strongly not try.

There is no man in this world that God created to be a shadow of other people

There is no shadow without the sun. No suffering without divinity. No fear without love. No despair without desire. No hopelessness without faith.

The true essence of the soul is revealing when we embrace the light and shadows within ourselves.

There was nothing the matter out there. It was in here, with me. I decided I'd better go to work, maybe that would exorcise me. I fled from the room almost as though it were haunted. It was too late to stop off at a breakfast counter now. I didn't want any, anyway. My stomach kept giving little quivers. In the end I didn't go to work, either. I couldn't, I wouldn't have been any good. I telephoned in that I was too ill to come, and it was no idle excuse, even though I was upright on my two legs. I roamed around the rest of the day in the sunshine. Wherever the sunshine was the brightest, I sought and stayed in that place, and when it moved on I moved with it. I couldn't get it bright enough or strong enough. I avoided the shade, I edged away from it, even the slight shade of an awning or of a tree. And yet the sunshine didn't warm me. Where others mopped their brows and moved out of it, I stayed - and remained cold inside. And the shade was winning the battle as the hours lengthened. It outlasted the sun. The sun weakened and died; the shade deepened and spread. Night was coming on, the time of dreams, the enemy. ("Nightmare")

The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.

They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be.

To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that you’d so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothing but the ability to live through it all and not experience a single thing, to eat everything without tasting it at all." Isak’s eyes shone with a desperate need. He wanted, more than anything it seemed, to be like me, when all I wanted was to be like him.

Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

Turn and face the Light, and all you see is Brightness. Turn and face Shadow, and all of Life will appear before you.

We curl around our own pain until we can’t see beyond ourselves. You want to walk on? Walk out of that shadow.

When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!

When even shadows need shadows to cool off, you must know that the weather is incredibly hot!

When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When you are in darkness, you lose your own shadow too

When one falls his shadow always embraces him, and his empty place is already someone else's. Kushal Poddar, Poet

When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.

When you are happy, you do not ask yourself- why am I happy or why does happiness come to my life? Similarly, when you are sad, you should not ask yourself- why am I sad or why does sadness follow me like a shadow? Accept both happiness and sadness as inseparable parts of life and your life will be easy!

When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide!

When your shadow becomes more popular than you, then you know that the sun is setting!

When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

Yet a mysterious gate lay open within her shadow; and all my flesh was aware of black pathways and hovels and the silence one observes when the dead are near.

You are alone. You learn how to walk like a man alone. To stroll, to dawdle. To see without looking, to look without seeing. You learn the art of transparency, immobility, inexistence.You learn how to be a shadow and how to look at men as if they were stones.

You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.

You okay?" Cam said into his headset microphone. She nodded, then made a face. "No one else has to work this hard to get married.

You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.

The sun glowed over them, throwing a miniature shadow on the road. Warm air was accompanying the heating of the day and the fluttering of leaves made multiple shadows dancing on the footpath. They could imagine fairies in the sky, dancing with the air, throwing their shadows near their plastic home.

Things are just things, they can't bring back the dead.It just makes me feel better. - Hiiragi

To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is....is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

Truth is so beautiful that its shadow could win a beauty contest.

Welcome the small cracking of your hard-clodded shell, Embrace the warm sting of tears, Kiss the shadow which frightens you awake as you turn the corners of your day, Love the whole of everything, Smooth sunshine skies and Jagged edges Which all seek us out in Constant whisper and touch To say, 'hello, Beautiful. You’re alive

We tarot lovers tend to be the sensual sort. We trade in shadow and gloom because we are willing to brave the literal and figurative darkness.

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

When the sun is setting your shadow become much more popular than yourself because with the help of sunset your shadow become a great artist, creating the beautiful art of mystery!

When you acknowledge the audience's shadow you become their hero.

You don't have to live in anyone's shadow. Allow your unique characteristics to shine forth and Illuminate your way.

Your Shadow is a dark omen, a powerful teacher that reveals to you the places in your life where you are energetically blocked. When you continue to ignore these signs, you perpetuate the cycle of your suffering.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.

A dream itself is but a shadow.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.