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Quotes About Shadows

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
~ Antonin Artaud
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
~ Diane Ackerman
The Sun Has Burst The Sky The sun has burst the sky Because I love you And the river its banks. The sea laps the great rocks Because I love you And takes no heed of the moon dragging it away And saying coldly 'Constancy is not for you'. The blackbird fills the air Because I love you With spring and lawns and shadows falling on lawns. The people walk in the street and laugh I love you And far down the river ships sound their hooters Crazy with joy because I love you
~ Jenny Joseph
Ten glorious years at Pingfang, a sea of bodies brought to you by train. War as immunity from man's laws. Before, you'd worked in the shadows. During the ten years you worked for Division 4 there were no such hindrances. Dr. Masaki ran the inventory, cataloguing prisoners as non-descript units referred to only as "Materials Used." You preferred to call the prisoners "logs," each destined for the incinerator after they'd been of use.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry.
~ Jesse Louis Jackson
Why are you melancholy? - Ach, I don't know. Because it's getting dark. All decent people are melancholy when evening comes. Not for any particular reason. Just on general grounds. -But only when they're alone. -Of course. The hour of the shadows. The hour of loneliness. The hour when cognac tastes best.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Omul tân?r tinde cu toat? f?ptura spre zenitul vieÈ›ii.Drumul duce înc? în sus.Când ajunge pe culme È™i o porneÈ™ti pe drumul care duce în jos È™i z?reÈ™ti valea cufundat? în umbrele înser?rii, gândul morÈ›ii îÈ›i devine mai familiar.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
When the long shadows have all merged into one and the stars begin to gleam out over the lake and the domes of the palaces of the White City.
~ Erik Larson
Another raid followed on January 31, during which nine airships flew as far as Liverpool, along the way sending terrifying shadows scudding across the landscape of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
~ Erik Larson
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In a flash I have a realization that chills me even further. While Robert and Ms. Violet knowingly engage in theatrics, that's just for business. It doesn't mean they don't actually believe this. The moving wave of leaves fades away before me, and I'm suddenly aware that the frogs have stopped their croaking. I get the feeling that I'm being watched. When I glance down at the shadows of Robert and me at our feet, a third figure now stands between us.
~ Andrew Mayne
Ã…Ëœíká se, že pokrok zahání temnotu. Ale vždycky budou stíny. A vždycky se bude ve stínech skrývat zlo, vždycky v nich budou zuby a drápy, vražda a krev. Vždycky budou tvorové tlukoucí po nocích. A my zaklína?i jsme tady proto, abychom je ztloukli.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
And could love free me from the shadows? Can a caged bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?)
~ Angela Carter
as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.
~ Angela Carter
It was the fault of the wedding-dress night, when she married the shadows and the world ended.
~ Angela Carter
They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.
~ Angela Carter
Elisabeta era o fiin?? care tr?ia o via?? interioar? intens? ÅŸi care p?rea c? face parte din natur?, din roci ÅŸi furtuni, din nori ÅŸi din apa din fântâni, din culorile nemaipomenite ale cerului ÅŸi din umbrele ierburilor.
~ Ángeles Caso
Jenna liked her own company and she loved wandering around the Palace, especially at night when candles cast great shadows across the corridors
~ Angie Sage
To Darkness You, darkness, of whom I am born— I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes all the rest. But the dark embraces everything: shapes and shadows, creatures and me, people, nations—just as they are. From The Book of Hours I, 11
~ Anita Barrows
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
The remodels and fresh coats of paint wouldn't cover all the shadows those two deaths had cast, the pall that had fallen over what had been a bucolic place to grow up. That
~ Robert Dugoni
Crom!" muttered the Cimmerian. "Here is the grandfather of all parrots. He must be a thousand years old! Look at the evil wisdom of his eyes. What mysteries do you guard, Wise Devil?" Abruptly the bird spread its flaming wings and soaring from its perch, cried out harshly: "Yagkoolan yok tha, xuthalla!" and with a wild screech of horribly human laughter, rushed away through the trees to vanish in the opalescent shadows.
~ Robert E. Howard