Shadow Quotes

• Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

  

  Genghis Khan
  • Remember
  • Shadow
  • Companions

• A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Imagine
  • Flame
  • Intentions

• When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

  

  Helen Keller
  • Feels
  • Gratitude
  • Faces

• There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Past
  • Dark
  • Majority

• Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Shadow

• To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

  

  William John Locke
  • Humans
  • Police
  • Reports

• The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Air
  • Battle
  • Wounds

• Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Knowledge
  • Trust
  • Building

• What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Shadow
  • Give Up
  • Searching

• dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Dream
  • Secret
  • Shining

• The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no more than a shadow or an echo behind some poem. Other times it will be more manifest. I try to write myself into articulations of half-felt, half-known feelings, without program. I'm always working toward getting my world and, hopefully, the world outside of me into a version that makes sense of it. Viciousness requires the same precision as love does.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Light
  • Mountains
  • Trunks

• I sit in thy shadow but not alone.

  

  Elizabeth Siddal
  • Shadow
  • Sit

• A human being is only breath and shadow.

  

  Sophocles
  • Shadow
  • Human being
  • Breath

• We think not in words but in shadows of words.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Shadow

• There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

  

  Richard O'Brien
  • Shadow
  • Lurking

• The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Darkness
  • Realize
  • Paint

• The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Shadow
  • Visible

• And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

  

  George Washington Cable
  • Shadow
  • Land
  • Afternoon

• In a dark time, the eye begins to see I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Desire
  • Dark
  • Times

• Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

  

  George Walter
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Shadow

• Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Brother
  • Feels
  • Shadow

• The shadow moves across the darkened streets, surveying its domain. The fog is like a living thing.

  

  Alexandra Sokoloff
  • Shadow
  • Streets
  • Fog

• It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Protect
  • Vain

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