Shadow Quotes

• When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Book
  • Dream
  • Sleep

• Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • Shadow

• I sit in thy shadow but not alone.

  

  Elizabeth Siddal
  • Shadow
  • Sit

• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Shadow

• 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
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Night

• There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Belief
  • Groups
  • Rate

• Between funny and witty Falls the shadow

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Fall
  • Shadow
  • Witty

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

  

  Declan Shalvey
  • Story
  • Shadow
  • Batman

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

  

  Alexandra Sokoloff
  • Shadow
  • Streets
  • Fog

• 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
  • Night
  • Enough
  • Window

• My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Shadow
  • Shortcomings

• Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • People
  • Different
  • Perception

• Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them.

  

  Reggie Lewis
  • Mind
  • Learn
  • Around

• 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

• Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

  

  Esther Forbes
  • Books
  • Shadow
  • I Believe

• Hidan: That was pitiful! What happened there, buddy? Kakuzu: You should talk. I wasn't the one who fell for a shadow clone! Hidan: Ahaha, right. You saw that?

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • Shadow
  • Buddy

• I have the impression of moving in the shadow of syllables, in regions before secrets, where language cannot yet answer the call of thought, in swamps where you risk sinking with every breath.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Impression
  • Breath
  • Secrets

• 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
  • World
  • Heart
  • Moving

• 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
  • Dream
  • Shadow
  • Return

• Error is but the shadow of the truth.

  

  Benjamin Stillingfleet
  • Truth
  • Shadow
  • Error

• We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

  

  Gene Cernan
  • Time
  • Moon
  • 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

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

  

  Nick Gordon
  • Shadow
  • Whole

• Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Evil
  • Shadow
  • Opposed

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