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Quotes About Shadow

His gaze lingered on the ruins of the keep. Twenty-two years ago , he had made a promise in the shadow of those walls - a promise to uphold his family's claim to the throne. In the end, he had done so much more than that. In the end, he had upheld his nation's claim to their kingdom.
~ Robyn Young
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
~ Rod Serling
At any rate those two, one the shadow of a shadow in the hall and the other a shadow also, an imitation of the ruthless man who'd stolen from the world with careless ease, both poised, caught in time.
~ Louise Erdrich
Les vivants qu'on égare dans les cryptes du temps dorment si bien avec les morts qu'une même ombre les confond déjà.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I see my skeleton walking down the street now. I'm walking behind it. Our feet touch the ground at the same time. I am my own shadow. The road we're walking along looks familiar. The trees lining the pavement have been bleached by the sun. There are stone steps on my left. I climb them. This is the route I used to take after school. It's very dark. The skeleton has disappeared.
~ Ma Jian
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the shadow was, the stars were not visible. What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear that was beyond shuddering, beyond crying or screaming, beyond the possibility of comfort?
~ Madeleine L'Engle
What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear beyond the possibility of comfort?
~ Madeleine L'Engle
For myself I like to take my sorrow into the shadow of old monasteries, my guilt into cloisters and under tapestries, and into the misericordes of unimaginable cantinas where sad-faced potters and legless beggars drink at dawn…
~ Malcolm Lowry
Follow your heart and success will be your unimpressive shadow.
~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
~ Hilaire Belloc
The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.
~ Ram Dass
If depression is darkness, then the child of depression grows up living in the shadow of that darkness. What we inherit - indiscriminate.
~ Amy Koppelman
All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
~ Amy Tan
I love my shadow, this dark side of me that had my same restless nature.
~ Amy Tan
I loved my shadow, this dark side of me that had my same restless nature.
~ Amy Tan
Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.
~ Anais Nin
They who walk in the light do not see those in the shadow.
~ Anais Nin
Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.
~ Anais Nin
She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.
~ Anais Nin
Africa the place is forever obscured by the shadow of Africa the notion.
~ Andrew Rice
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the memory of experiences well loved. It tempers our troubles to our growth and our strength. It befriends us in the dark hours, excites us in bright ones. It lends promise to the future and purpose to the past. It turns discouragement to determination. Samuel Smiles
~ Samuel Smiles
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~ Samuel Smiles
Dove c'è molta luce, l'ombra è più nera...
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe