Quotes About Shadows

So many youths, praying before an altar of shadows, waiting for one moment to live a dream, to become the heroes of their own tales.

So to the end when life's dim shadows fall,                  Love will be found the sweetest song of all.

Cold purple shadows rose in the east, crept slowly across the prairie, then rose in heights on heights of darkness from which the stars swung low and bright.

We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.

People who don't camp much think darkness falls from the sky. It doesn't. Darkness slides from the trees and fills them first, then spreads outward to the open places.

Ghosts are waiting in the shadows of the room, patient dull shimmers. The others can see them, too, I know it. We're all afraid to talk about what stares at us from the dark.

The fat, pumpkin-colored moon rose, turning bloodstains into shadows. All of the colors of shirts and jackets and uniforms paled to the same shade of gray.

Gloaming," Dad said. "What?" "That word I couldn't remember. Gloaming. That short, murky time between half-light and dark.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

Here the clouds constantly adjusted like obedient phantoms, so that shadows never lengthened or shortened. At any point in space, Limbo never became any darker or lighter than the moment before.

Front grace in the shadows

The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They're lost in the shadows of the moon.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

The Tao, which is the Force, is fully present, alive, and unassailable by the illusions that cloud our vision as we plod through a world of shadows and distortions.

There were other, more subtle artistic effects. The slow shift of the light through each day caused shadows to drift, shorten and lengthen, producing constantly changing silhouettes. The summits of mountains, which might be pink in the mornings, turned violet and amaranth in the afternoon. ... Like music, (these phenomena) created a feeling that was not there before

The brightest has a gathering of people stood about it. Trapped beneath their heels, stretched shadows shy back from the flames, yet do not jump or dance. What are they burning there, so still by night? My

But I believe. I believe that once we were ruled by beings so evil that even their own shadows shied away from them.

Where I go, the ghosts go. I go where the evil is.

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"

In lei, Laide, viveva meravigliosamente la città, dura, decisa, presuntuosa, sfacciata, orgogliosa, insolente. Nella degradazione degli animi e delle cose, fra suoni e luci equivoci, al'ombra tetra dei condominii, fra le muraglie di cemento e di gesso, nella frenetica desolazione, una specie di fiore.

every shadow of a thought or doubt.. crossed his face with the clarity of cloud shadows racing across the fields.

How hard it can be to keep an eye on what's important, not be distracted by confusing patterns. Better to get out of the shadows . .

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.