Shadow Quotes
188 quotes
"My shadow follows me during the day, and then surrounds me at night as it clones itself into complete darkness. Now that’s self-love."
"I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely."
"I’ll stand by you. And by stand I mean cower in your shadow. It’s probably cold there, so I’m going to knit myself a warm cat sweater to wear."
"Last night my shadow exploded into hundreds of fluttering black birds, foreshadowing my love taking flight under the cover of camouflage."
"Some people grow vegetables by day, but I grow shadows by night. Right now my only customer is the US government, but the profit is unbelievable."
"I make love like my afternoon shadow is long. I'll bring the foreplay, if you bring the guacamole. (Yes, I know there is a 99-cent upcharge.)"
"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"
"I’m learning to play the saxophone so when you feel lonely I can come over and stand in the shadows and play it for you. Two is one too lonely for me."
"May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you..."
"I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow."
"Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression."
"I’m 30-years-old, and I still can’t get out from under my father’s shadow. He’s really tall, so maybe I’ll just ask him to move over a few feet."
"What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul."
"What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?"
"No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words of Time in this world, they can never shade the eternity lost inside you."
"I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like."
"One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things."
"Shadows only come to life in our imaginations.Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imagination."
"You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you."
"Everything that is,casts a shadow"
"It is better to hide under the shadow of the righteousness of Almighty God than seek refuge in shelter of sins."
"New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow. God is dead, but given the way people are, there may still be caves for millennia in which his shadow is displayed. -- And we -- we must still defeat his shadow as well!"
"Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns."
"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."
"So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?"
"I Love the Smell of Success in the Shadows of Failure.~Ayyaz Ameer Meo"
"So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."
"All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling"
"Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light."
"When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When you are in darkness, you lose your own shadow too"
"Learn to accept the inevitability of difference between the self-view & others' image of us. Be willing to take this as an opportunity to grow consciousness. Have clarity to know when others' view is projection of their own shadow. Summon courage to endure growth pains. Life is simple."
"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."
"As time flies, its the kid who becomes his parents' shadow."
"She's in the Catskill," Shopie began, but Scathach reached over and pinched her hand. ""
"There is no man in this world that God created to be a shadow of other people"
"If love weighs you downand casts a shadow on your lifethen it isn’t love.Love is light and makes you light."
"The most reliable friend you have is your shadow."
"He was cold, standing in a wood, talking to a big black bird who was currently brunching on Bambi."
"If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt."
"To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water."
Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination
"I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it."
L.M. Montgomery, My Dear Mr. M: Letters to G.B. Macmillan from L.M. Montgomery
"The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!"
"If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own"
"Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you."
"The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering."
"Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!"
"You don't have to live in anyone's shadow. Allow your unique characteristics to shine forth and Illuminate your way."
"A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter's tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano'sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still..."
"No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied by the fury of the water,there the shadow lives that does not travel with me."
"If you try to take our heart without earning our soul, our heart will break"
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