Shadow Quotes

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You.

This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.

Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

I like my shadow; it reminds me that I exist.

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Above all shadows rides the sun.

Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

My shadow serves as the friend I crave

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.