Shadow Quotes
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You get to play with shadow, mood, and tone. And this [Batman All-Stars] is such a moody story.
Declan Shalvey
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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
Ray Bradbury
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There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
Richard O'Brien
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I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?
Steve Martin
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Remember, you have no companions but your shadow
Genghis Khan
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Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.
Ben Loory
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The shadow moves across the darkened streets, surveying its domain. The fog is like a living thing.
Alexandra Sokoloff
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I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!
Ray Bradbury
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Swift as shadow, short as any dream
William Shakespeare
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By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again.
Nick Gordon
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
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Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.
George Walter
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Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
Vladimir Nabokov
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They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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The spring is fresh and fearless
And every leaf is new,
The world is brimmed with moonlight,
The lilac brimmed with dew.
Here in the moving shadows
I catch my breath and sing -
My heart is fresh and fearless
And over-brimmed with spring.
Sara Teasdale
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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
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She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!
Elizabeth Gaskell
