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Quotes About Shadow

Personality is the one thing we cannot control in our manipulations of Shadow. In fact, it is the means by which we can tell one another from the shadows of ourselves. This is why Flora could not decide about me for so long, back on the Shadow Earth: my new personality was sufficiently different.
~ Roger Zelazny
Was that a dark figure ducking behind a windmill tree? Or only the dance of shadows in my shadow-shifting eyes?
~ Roger Zelazny
The devil ought not to be in our line of vision but in our shadow.
~ Leonard Sweet
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue unaccompanied by envy.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Pero así cómo el ojo ve primero lo que está al sol y después con asombro y alegría descubre en la sombra un tesoro
~ Leonid Andreyev
And though the shadow of a sigh May tremble through the story, For happy summer days gone by, And vanish'd summer glory-- It shall not touch with breath of bale, The pleasance of our fairy-tale.
~ Lewis Carroll
What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly. Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl and offers us the grapes to devour. 'You must try to correct it.' 'But what if it's too late? What if you can't?' There's a sad sympathy in Miss Moore's catlike eyes as she regards my painting again. She paints the thinnest sliver of shadow along the bottom of the apple, bringing it fully to life. 'Then you must find a way to live with it.
~ Libba Bray
The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.
~ Libba Bray
Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and missing.
~ Libba Bray
And farther still, in the vast prairies mythologized in the American mind, a figure stood shadowed in the dark, biding his time, a scarecrow awaiting harvest.
~ Libba Bray
You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow.
~ Libba Bray
Dreams are the shadow self let loose.
~ Libba Bray
Worry and anxiety give a small thing a big shadow, and this shadow creates problems, not just in the soul and spirit, but in the body.
~ Linda Dillow
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
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
~ Brennan Manning
Trust" are the eyes you need in the shadow of death.
~ Alin Sav
Love is God's shadow as He strolls through the universe.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Remember to take in and harvest light yet also allow yourself to cast shadows where needed, like a tree. Then, in return, your shadow will support your light.
~ Iva Kenaz, The Goddess Within
As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.
~ Albert Einstein
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Do not be afraid of people who lurk in the shadows. Stand up for what you believe in. The people in the shadows are no match for people who are not afraid of light.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Por colinas, caballos veloces aplastaban la nieve profunda… A un lado un templo sagrado solitario asomaba al camino. ………………… Mas de pronto estalló la nevasca, y la nieve cayó a grandes copos. En el ala azabache un silbido, sobrevuela un cuervo el trineo. ¡El gemido auguraba desdichas! Los caballos de andar presuroso oteaban las sombras lejanas, y alzando sus crines… ZHUKOVSKI
~ Alexander Pushkin