Quotes About Shadow

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Y así continúo corriendo tras esta vaga sombra, hasta que me conduce al borde del abismo, donde me detengo con espanto.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks, My busy heart who shudders as she talks Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.

There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things…Choose a place where you won't do very much harm and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her shadow. Soon he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us. The things are assuredly not of this life; no woman of Leonardo's could have anything so vulgar as a "story." She did develop most wonderfully day by day.

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light," he continued in measured tones. "We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm — yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

Tluin," he whispered, into the gloom around him. "Naed, hrast, and farruking tluin.

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted—nevermore!

The Realm of Fairy is a strange shadow land, lying just beyond the fields we know.

There's a shadow hanging over me,Oh yesterday came suddenly.

Darkness which may be felt.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

The land of darkness and the shadow of death.

Our time is a very shadow that passeth away.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.