Best 1022 quotes in «shadow quotes» category

But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.

But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again.

By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Donald Trump's a bigot without a shadow of a doubt.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is awareness, watchfulness. The only thing that is not part of the world of action is pure awareness. No shadow is created by pure awareness. It is so pure that light can pass through it - it is transparent and no shadow is created.

Doubt is the shadow of truth.

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.

dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

Emil Nava brother is Jake Nava, who did Beyonce's Crazy In Love and stuff. He's always lived in his brother's shadow, and this is the first time that he's just killing sh*t. I'm really just happy that he's on top and really doing well.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Even one hair has a shadow.