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Quotes About Shadow

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
~ Bruce Sterling
When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.
~ Robert Redford
I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
~ Pythagoras
Wij zijn slechts schimmen die korte tijd mogen dansen in het licht.
~ Sally Gardner
En el toro hallo vida y muerte, la sombra de lo eterno, y en el torero hallo inspiración, un héroe místico
~ Salvador Dali
No estimo res més, excepte l'ombra viatgera d'un núvol. El lent record dels dies que són passats per sempre.
~ Salvador Espriu
In problems of logic, contradictory statements cannot be true; in the psyche, only contradictions are true. Self-image and shadow are Siamese twins, and the psyche is equally formed by the conscious and unconscious. Whatever appears to be true on the surface is linked to an opposite truth beneath the surface. What you see is not what you get.
~ Sam Keen
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
~ Sam Snead
Her beams bemocked the sultry main,Like April hoarfrost spread;But where the ship's huge shadow lay,The charmed water burnt alwayA still and awful red.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Waktu berjalan ke Barat di waktu pagi hari matahari mengikutiku di belakang. Aku berjalan mengikuti bayang-bayangku sendiri yang memanjang di depan. Aku dan matahari tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang telah menciptakan bayang-bayang, aku dan bayang-bayang tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang harus berjalan di depan.
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
What a pity he let the substance go for the shadow.
~ Sara Hylton
There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.
~ Keri Hulme
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
~ Rita Dove
All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.
~ Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
~ Robert Jordan
Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.
~ Therese of Lisieux
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
~ Alice Walker
it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.
~ Dov Davidoff
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
~ Edward Abbey
Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.
~ Stephen King
Magic is the recognition of the fire burning behind us when all else see only their own shadow on the wall.
~ Margaret Weis