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Quotes About Shadow

Nigdy nie by?am do ko?ca pewna, czy naprawd? istniej?. Mog?am przecie? by? cieniem, my?l?, obrazem, który b?yskawicznie przemkn?? pod powiekami innego cz?owieka. Jak?eby inaczej? Wystarczy?o, ?ebym siedzia?a w milczeniu przez minut? czy dwie i ca?y ?wiat móg? o mnie zapomnie?.
~ Unknown
I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours." "Thank you." "Sank you." "Not sank you, Señora Gregorio, thank you." "Sank you.
~ Malcolm Lowry
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.
~ Manuel Rivas
Given the fleeting nature of the moment and the least event, the most important thing is to anticipate being able to see it again in order to believe it, to anticipate the absence that already looms, the shadow cast by an elusive present. This is the opposite of what is sometimes called the work of grieving, which tends to allay the forgetting. It is not a question of admitting that the other is no longer there but of assuring oneself of having been there, in person.
~ Unknown
Il paraît que ce matin-là, sur une digue, la lanterne d'un petit phare abandonné s'est remise à tourner, c'est l'ombre d'un souvenir qui me l'a raconté.
~ Marc Levy
je suis une ombre dans ta vie,tu es bien plus que ça dans la mienne et ça me fait du mal
~ Marc Levy
Cómo había podido desaparecer todo ese amor? Y, sobre todo, ¿adónde se había ido? Quizá el amor sea como una sombra, alguien lo pisa y se lo lleva puesto. A lo mejor demasiada luz es peligrosa para el amor, o quizá sea al revés, sin luz la sombra del amor se desvanece y termina por desaparecer.
~ Marc Levy
Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are.
~ Marcel Duchamp
If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.
~ Marcel Duchamp
Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.
~ Marcel Duchamp
Things outside seemed also fixed in mute expectation, so as not to disturb the moonlight which, duplicating each of them and throwing it back by the extension, forwards, of a shadow denser and more concrete than its substance, had made the whole landscape seem at once thinner and longer, like a map which, after being folded up, is spread out upon the ground.
~ Marcel Proust
But ever since, more than a year before, discovering to him many of the riches of his own soul, the love of music had, for a time at least, been born in him, Swann had regarded musical motifs as actual ideas, of another world, of another order, ideas veiled in shadow, unknown, impenetrable to the human mind, but none the less perfectly distinct from one another, unequal among themselves in value and significance.
~ Marcel Proust
From some points of view, the demonic is not that which hides in the shadows, but lives among us, is us, in every choice we make and don't make.
~ John Milton
There is a poetic import to the phrase 'without a shadow of a doubt': in all probability, there is no doubt without a shadow. Doubt is the shadow cast when something gets in the way of the light. Ironically, doubt itself often brings greater light because of the shadow it casts.
~ John O'Donohue
The regular campaign staff, including the regular campaign manager, had no idea that the shadow staff existed.
~ John Sandford
Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full
~ John Sandford
Alice Green was a former Secret Service agent. She was not in the loop on the shadow campaign. Taryn said, "Alice is with the car. . . . What happened?
~ John Sandford
Because of that loyalty, and because of his history as an intelligence officer, she'd had him set up the shadow campaign staff—spies—to keep an eye on her opponent, Smalls. He'd also identified other possible assets: among them, Bob Tubbs.
~ John Sandford
Now Kino lay in the cave entrance, his chin braced on his crossed arms, and he watched the blue shadow of the mountain move out across the brushy desert below until it reached the Gulf, and the long twilight of the shadow was over the land.
~ John Steinbeck
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.
~ Unknown
I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
~ Gertrude Stein
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
~ Brian K. Vaughan