Quotes About Shadow

Dans ce pays ensoleillé tout était lumineux, sauf l'homme.

When we lose contact, we see only hate, only injustice, a giant so great its shadow blocks our sun.

For need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

You see, that priest—he was still there, hanging on, silently waiting at the perimeter. An oily shadow always around.

Standing in the shadow of the most prodigious political and fund-raising apparatus the Democratic Party had ever seen, [Biden] felt like a stranger to it, as if he'd walked into an opulent wedding where he knew no one.

dread invades the living room, finds her on the couch, presses on her, gets inside her where it swiftly grows bigger than she is until she is inside it, looking out from a rind of shadow.

ÖzgürlüÄŸü günlerimden artakalan bir gölgeydim sadece.

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

this imminent danger seemed to take bodily shape, and I could almost fancy that I saw this most loathsome and dangerous of all the fiends crouching closely in his very shadow, like a half-cowed beast which slinks beside its keeper, ready at any unguarded moment to spring at his throat.

Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow—misery.

I saw the vague outline of a man, a shade blacker than the blackness of the open door.

The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him. That's what puts him on a pinnacle in the records of crime.

These were our monuments, the physical signs of our passing, in the color of the door, in the screw holes and the edge marks of our sign. They held the shadow of us. Our ghosts lingered at this corner.

If you would seek to find yourself look not in the mirror for there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH

belief is to knowledge as shadow is to original

We think that if man gives himself up to an indefinite pursuit of the future he will lose his existence without ever recovering it; he then resembles a madman who runs after his shadow.

Minä on vain synnin ja erehdyksen luoma varjo; synti ja erehdys pysähdyttävät Jumalasta säteilevän valon. Ja tätä varjoa minä luulen olennoksi. Vaikka voisikin olla Jumalan kaltainen, olisi sittenkin parempi olla liejua, joka tottelee Jumalaa.

God allows me to exist outside himself. It is for me to refuse this authorization. The self is only the shadow which sin and error cast by stopping the light of God, and I take this shadow for a being.

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

What is God singing in his profound Delphi of gold and shadow?

And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.

For now I feel All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream.

Here he comes like a stealing shadow, like a footprint of death into the rooms, stalking the past with freshcut blood in his hands.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.