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Quotes About Shadow

The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.
~ Bryce Dessner
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
~ Jean Genet
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
~ Sophocles
Jurisprudential law is sham law: to ascribe stability to this creature of the imagination, is to ascribe stability to a shadow.
~ bentham jeremy ii
Frustration at being unable to get hold of server resources in a timely fashion has led to the phenomenon of shadow IT: developers bypassing IT proper and obtaining resources themselves.
~ Bernard Golden
You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.
~ Beth Ditto
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now when was then?
~ Bill Nye
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
~ Bill Vaughn
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
~ Victoria Strauss
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
~ Eileen Myles
I do not deny that you overwhelm me with your beauty. You are the moon in the season of shadow light; you are the fruit of the candlewood tree; you are the phoenix in circles of flight --.
~ Gregory Maguire
Nothing that is spiritual can fail to shine. Of course we can't see it directly, because the shadow it casts is just another kind of light. You have to look sideways to see it, but once you see it, you can never un-see it. It is the light you see in the faces of children.
~ Gregory Maguire
Those mountains are my mind's wall and wellspring. Down here, the light is peach colored, and as the sun shifts, one loose shadow, like thought, takes on a sharp edge.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
But that which most attracts the eye is opposite the Lion d'Or inn, the chemist's shop of Monsieur Homais. In the evening especially its argand lamp is lit up and the red and green jars that embellish his shop-front throw far across the street their two streams of colour; then across them as if in Bengal lights is seen the shadow of the chemist leaning over his desk.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I was resting in the shadow of that ideal happiness as in the shade of the poisonous manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.
~ Gustave Flaubert
El amor fue extinguiéndose poco a poco con la ausencia, bajo la costumbre se ahogó la pena; y aquel resplandor de incendio que teñía de púrpura su pálido cielo se cubrió de más sombra y se difuminó gradualmente
~ Gustave Flaubert
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
For he who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone. I
~ H.P. Lovecraft
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
For he who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
He who passes the gates always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
He who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
And always the shadow of nameless fear hung about the sealed trap-doors and the dark, windowless elder towers.
~ H.P. Lovecraft