Best 1022 quotes in «shadow quotes» category

When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Where I once found it safer to stay in the background... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

Y’all might as well come on out,” I said. “I know you’re there. I can smell you.” “Smell me? But I just took a shower this morning!” an indignant voice drifted out of the shadows. There was a loud sound, like someone was getting smacked upside the head. Then another voice let out a low mutter. “Shut up, idiot.

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments.

You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.

You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

You get to play with shadow, mood, and tone. And this [Batman All-Stars] is such a moody story.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!

You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!

You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

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 thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

You're not only the spotlight in which you perform, but the shadows where you practice.

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon

Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (

Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.

You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.

A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it’s my rebirth in darkness.

You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?

And I would like To console you And make of you My solitude And drink you As my source And lay you On my distress And breathe Your memory In your shadow Smile and sleep -get old And then die.

After that he had more or less stopped reading. You could not trust fiction. What good were books, if they couldn't protect you from something like that?

A good leader is the shadow of his followers; but he guides them to follow the sun so his shadow does not earn the credit.

And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must be instructed how to Cast them with due Care. It is only the Darknesse that can give trew Forme to our Work and trew Perspective to our Fabrick, for there is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe (and I turn this Thought over in my Mind: what Life is there which is not a Portmanteau of Shaddowes and Chimeras?). I build in the Day to bring News of the Night and of Sorrowe, I continued, and then I broke off for Walter's sake.

A leader helps the brilliance of others shine and never allows them to be hidden in his or her shadow.