Quotes About Shadows

All virtues have a shadow.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position. The shadows on the walls, on the faces, are not the same.

She and Prudence sat on a cool grassy carpet. A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child's face.

Surely the colour of London was an exquisite thing. It was like a pearl that late afternoon, something very gentle and pale, with faint blue shadows. And as for its smell, she doubted, indeed, whether heaven itself could smell better, certainly not so interesting. And anyhow, she said to herself, lifting her head a moment in appreciation, it can't possibly smell more alive .

The room was dim, as though drenched in perpetual afternoon.

Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark.

My soul is full of whispered song; My blindness is my sight; The shadows that I feared so long Are all alive with light.

All around me, the night lived its secret life.

Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.

There are different kinds of darkness, and Joe Solomon knew them all. From the black that lives behind blindfolds to the deep shadows of prison cells built underground. He'd seen everything. But he never could get used to how the darkness of midnight always feels different from the darkness of dawn. One marks the end and the other the beginning, but as he sat beside the perfectly still water and watched the sky begin to brighten, he honestly didn't know which one was coming.

Maybe." I shrug. "But what I meant was, can't you use the makeup to cover it?" Miles rolls his eyes and scowls. "Oh, so I can sport a huge flesh-colored beacon instead? Would you look at this thing? There's no disguising it. It's got it's own DNA! It's casting shadows!

I hide in the shadows and lust for the light For I am Vampyre forever imprisoned by the night.

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

We're all moons. Some are just better at hiding their dark sides.

The slick, chin-high tops of cars made an undulating surface that stretched away into the darkness in all directions; beneath it stood endless shadowy ranks of fenders and fins, of intricately bulbous bumpers and grills alive with numberless points of reflected neon.

The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

Everyone grew silent. It was sunset now, with orange fire burning in the western sky, and shadows falling across all of us.

Las mayores y más trascendentales revoluciones suelen comenzar en silencio, ocultas en las sombras-me contempló-Recuerda eso