Quotes About Shadow

If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.

It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

The shameless criminality of Lenin, Stalin, and the Cheka cast a long shadow, but I don't see their kind returning anytime soon.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

When I fear I have done wrong, when I look to those who are less wise, when I forget transcendence, and kneel in the meanings of colour and shadow, when I tell lies to my soul, I seek out water, I follow it's charm - a river, a steam, a lake with its springs and currents. See how it offers life as it flawlessly flows and forms to the shape of this world, the contours of the land, the urge of earth, hear how it sings under the sun, of endless evaporation.

The romantic vision promises 'shadowless' relationships, but it is precisely by wrestling with the relationship's shadow, with disillusionment, that deep intimacy is sustained.

When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.

You are fate's shadow or fate's sun, depending on which way you turn.

Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny hillside of happiness.

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

Mind is the forerunner of (all good) states. Mind is chief; mind-made are they. If one speaks or acts with pure mind, because of that,happiness follows one, even as one's shadow that never leaves

You Success is your own shadow, if you walk in a clear path you will be able to see it clearly, don't try to catch because you will never succeed ignore it and walk on the right path it will follow You.

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.

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........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.