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Quotes About Shadow

The poplars were a symbol. It was only the light from behind the poplars that made their silhouettes visible.
~ Can Xue
Radiance unrelenting— no peace, no shadow, no shelter now—
~ Carl Phillips
From the shadow length in Alexandria, the angle A can be measured. But from simple geometry ("if two parallel straight lines are transected by a third line, the alternate interior angles are equal"), angle B equals angle A. So by measuring the shadow length in Alexandria, Eratosthenes concluded that Syene was A = B = 7° away on the circumference of the Earth.
~ Carl Sagan
We are not primarily biological, with mind emerging as a kind of iridescence, a kind of epiphenomenon at the higher levels of organization of biology. We are hyperspatial objects of some sort that cast a shadow into matter. The shadow in matter is our physical organism.
~ Terence McKenna
He was nothing but a shadow on the horizon when that old basset hound of his escaped from the sheriff's office and went loping down the street. When she reached the edge of town, she sank down on her grizzled haunches, threw back her head, and let out a howl that broke nearly every heart that heard it. Later, there would be many who would swear he'd reined in his mare and stood silhouetted against the sunset for a timeless moment.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Le leggende e i miti che non esistevano ieri riprenderanno vita nel mondo di domani. Dopo un sonno di secoli, esseri malvagi, spietati e astuti si risveglieranno. L'ombra del Signore degli Inganni comincia a scendere sulle quattro Terre.
~ Terry Brooks
The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you.
~ Terry Brooks
Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.
~ Terry Goodkind
Everyone feared what it could mean. The mood was one of dread and expectancy that they were yet to see the true dimension of the coming shadow of a cataclysm. Some people seemed to think such violence would soon swoop in to visit even the little town of Westfield. Everyone feared what would happen next.
~ Terry Goodkind
There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away.
~ Terry Pratchett
The night was as black as the inside of a cat.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Weatherwax women have always had one foot in shadow. It's in the blood. And most of their power comes from denying it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.
~ Terry Pratchett
Sometimes the moon is light and sometimes it's in shadow, but you should always remember it's the same moon.
~ Terry Pratchett
There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving place, hurtling around the planet at a thousand miles an hour like a dark knike, cutting slices of daily bread off the endless loaf of Time.
~ Terry Pratchett
Sometimes the moon is light and sometimes it's in shadow, but you should always remember it's the same moon.
~ Terry Pratchett
A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?
~ Terry Tempest Williams
My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive. as long as I have a shadow
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I walk with my shadow behind me, sometimes ahead, and often to the side. It is my capricious companion: visible, then hidden, amorphous. A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage it.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
you carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. Always you will see that within you the shadow and the light are equal: you have an ability, you also have the negation of this ability. But, if you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure that somewhere in you there is a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
~ The Mother
First give them beauty. Then give them darkness.
~ Theodora Goss
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned against a sweating wall, that place among the rocks--is it a cave, or winding path? The edge is what I have.
~ Theodore Roethke