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Quotes About Shadow

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
~ Lucan
Een zuivere schim in een vervuilde schepping.
~ Unknown
Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
~ Lucille Roybal-Allard
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Outside, the moon is a silver sliver. Every night, the shadow eats a slice of it, until it's nothing but this hollow rind. I feel the same way; with each day, I lose a little more of myself.
~ Jodi Picoult
Grief, it turns out, is a lot like a one-sided video conversation on an iPad. It's the call with no response, the echo of affection, the shadow cast by love. But just because you can't see it anymore doesn't make it any less real.
~ Jodi Picoult
Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? The harbor cold to the mating ships, And you have lost as you stand by the balcony With the forest of the sea calm and gray beneath. A strong impression torn from the descending light But night is guilty. You knew the shadow In the trunk was raving But as you keep growing hungry you forget. The distant box is open. A sound of grain Poured over the floor in some eagerness--we Rise with the night let out of the box of wind.
~ John Ashbery
The very second you begin to doubt is the minute you lose sight of your outcome. Even in our darkest hour, will we find better days. Don't let the years pass, reflecting the light that becomes your shadow.
~ Unknown
The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
~ Guy Finley
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
~ Thomas Browne
Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.
~ Warren Zevon
Death walks among us
~ Unknown
How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.
~ Unknown
Death is a shadow that always follows the body
~ English proverb
All have a shadow over the earth but no shadow under earth or in grave.
~ Abidul Huda Chowdhury Suzon
Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
~ Omar Khayyam
Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
~ Tim Burton
Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.
~ Jane Yolen
He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain.
~ Diana Palmer
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life a new again.
~ Diane Ackerman
Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.
~ Diane Duane
Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?
~ Diane Setterfield