Quotes About Shadow

He who studies MA in English Literature but fears the name Shakespeare is one who studies shadow but afraid of its statue.

There are lights in the streets and shadows in the house.

Your dreams become illusion when you are working in the opposite with your shadow.

The four courtisans or grandes horizontales whose lives and legends are examined in this book were all, in different ways, representative of the demi-monde in nineteenth-century Paris - that is, of that half-world midway between respectable high society and the low life of the common prostitute. demi-monde is a term suggestive of twilight, of a world of shifting appearances and shadow, where nothing is quite what it seems, a world between worlds.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

It's not a dream, But the reality that makes our passion As a lamp shadow—no—no lamp, the sun. What the world's million lips are thirsting for Must be substantial somewhere...

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. 'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.

Looking East at Night" Death White hand The moths fly at in the darkness I took you for the moon rising Whose light then do you reflect As though it came out of the roots of things This harvest pallor in which I have no shadow but myself

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

He's a young man who has lived under the shadow of the sword from the moment when he fled England as a boy of fourteen to the day when he rode home to fight for his claim. Nobody knows better than he that any claimant to the throne has to be killed at once. A king cannot let a pretender live. No king can allow a pretender to live.

Light is the shadow of god

Nox atra cava circumvolat umbra

Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.

It was like a shadow had brushed over me, but a shadow on my soul, not on my skin. Took me a second to identify what it was, but I recognized the feeling instinctively: Nadim. And Nadim was sad. It felt weird. And at the same time, it felt like something I'd always, unconsciously, needed-sound, where there'd only been silence. Presence, where there'd been loneliness.

Carry shadow on your back, embrace light in your arms," the Tao Te Ching tells us)