Shadow Quotes

• A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

  

  Djuna Barnes
  • Shadow

• God is truth and light his shadow.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Truth
  • Shadow

• Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth nigher With each dawn and every day, Through the earthquake and the fire 'Love will find out the way.'

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • May
  • Dream
  • Fire

• The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • inspirational
  • Ambition

• If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Friend

• You create the color first, and then the name that fits. It depends - there are no rules. You watch a fabulous old movie, and you suddenly get inspired by it to create a lipstick shade, or you walk through a gorgeous garden and find the most beautiful flower shade for an eye shadow, and then you name it.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Color

• I have tremendous respect for both John Elway and Peyton Manning as people and as quarterbacks in the NFL, but I was not concerned one bit with playing in their shadow.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • People
  • Respect
  • Shadow

• The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

  

  Charles Stross
  • People
  • Small
  • Humanity

• Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Substance
  • Twenties

• “Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.”

  

  Will Thomas (novelist)
  • Shadow
  • Writes
  • Victorian

• All trace of the woman he had seen had vanished, leaving behind a shadow with perfect posture and no conversation. She was right. Everyone would wonder if he flirted with her. He wouldn’t even know how to manage it. One couldn’t flirt with a lump.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Woman
  • Trace
  • Flirt

• To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow

  

  William Jenkyn
  • Moments
  • Treasure
  • Forsake

• To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Horse
  • Mountains
  • Blowing

• As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.

  

  William Law
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet.

  

  Aftab Alam
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Crush

• I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Hold
  • My Mind

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Evil
  • Shadow

• The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Picture
  • Shadow
  • Positive Thing

• Doubt is the shadow of truth.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Truth
  • Doubt
  • Shadow

• Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

  

  Ambrose
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Falling

• The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.

  

  Steve Mann
  • Shadow
  • Sin
  • Guilty

• Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

  

  Benjamin West
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Shadow

• Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Tales

• The exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World
  • Science
  • Reality

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