Shadow Quotes
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We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
Lorraine Toussaint
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The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.
Lady Jane Grey
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
H. P. Blavatsky
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It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.
Lou Gehrig
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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.
Hans Frank
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Well, mi amore, this is awesome news! Let's get right on that," said Kami, and began to undo the buttons of her blouse. She looked down at the red buttons slipping out one by one from the black fabric of her shirt. She only had eight buttons, and there went the fourth. Jared sucked breath out of a horrified void and shouted, "stop that!" He angled himself to protect her from the eyes of a crowd that was not there. He hesitated, possibly because now he had a view directly down into shadows and curves.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
Bryce Dessner The National
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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Leo Tolstoy
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We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt
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Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.
Langston Hughes
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I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.
Pablo Neruda
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Between the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow .
T. S. Eliot
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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
John Dewey
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I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?
John Wesley
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I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
E. B. White
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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe.
Gabriela Mistral
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Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood
N. Scott Momaday
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It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.
Jason Lee
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
E. M. Forster
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Yeah I'm in love with the girl in the four-wheel driveChrome steel bumpers and red step sideShe has a large time in her large machineMan I wonder how she gets up in that thingIt casts a big shadow sittin' in the sunShe's got it revved up rockin' ready to runAnd someday soon I'm gonna climb right upAnd take a little ride in her big ol' truck.
Toby Keith
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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
John Millington Synge
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Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.
Fausto Cercignani