Quotes About Shadow

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

Gibson stepped onto a relentless treadmill, writing a full novel for each issue. Working under the pseudonym Maxwell Grant, he became one of the busiest practitioners of the pulp era. By 1932, buoyed by success, the magazine had become bimonthly, and Gibson was writing a novel every two weeks. Ultimately, he would do more than 280 Shadow books.

Once, she came face-to-face with a heavyset man wearing a hooded short cloak. They came level with each other under one of the infrequent lanterns and she could make out only the lower half of his face. The upper half was shaded by the hood. She had an impression of a dark, full beard. In the shadow of his hood, his eyes were unblinking, staring at her.

Oh what a nothing is our life!--namely, a span, a dream, a wind, a shadow, a vapour, a post, swifter than a post (Job 7:6).

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...

we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

The darkness of the world is but a shadow, but there is light that causes the shadow.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

It's where you are in your imagination That's important, for the life of simply staying where you are Is a shadow's life, that leaves you by yourself, alone and scared. Why can't we just move on? The light up ahead is soft And seems to beckon us, glowing with a promise of beginning Once again, as if there were still time.

I am a ghost. A wraith of atoms. A shadow.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

The rhombic dodecahedron is a three-dimensional shadow of the four-dimensional tesseract analogous to the hexagon as a two-dimensional shadow of the cube.

There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.

Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out of each other's lives, as we all must eventually leave this earth. Great artists know that shadow, work always against the dying light, but always knowing that the day brings new light and that the ocean which washes away all traces on the sand leaves us a new canvas with each wave.

Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow.

The crown of shadows that capped his golden hair seemed to draw a rich dark tint from the crimson velvet of his breeches, and his eyes caught more light than the sunset sky had to offer.

The moon continued to darken, even as the eastern sky grew pale. A third of the disc had vanished into shadow and Will caught his breath at the beauty of it, and the danger.

The cold of Faerie magic pierced he warmth of the night; the Seeker's will cast a shadow as she pausd under a streetlight, again chafing her hands.