Quotes About Shadows

The new living flesh was replicating the old in a game, we were a chain of shadows who had always been on the stage with the same burden of love, hatred, desire, and violence.

A nova carne viva repetia a velha por brincadeira, éramos uma cadeia de sombras sempre encenada com a mesma carga de amor, de ódio, de vontades e de violência.

La nueva carne viva copiaba en broma a la vieja, éramos una cadena de sombras que desde siempre se representaba con la misma carga de amor, odio, deseos y violencia.

I was blind, she a falcon; I had an opaque pupil, she narrowed her eyes, with darting glances that saw more; I clung to her arm, among the shadows, she guided me with a stern gaze.

Me pides algo terrible: que me recuerde a mí misma cuando ya me había olvidado. Para sobrevivir en mi reino de sombras había cerrado la puerta a la memoria.

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.

Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

In that moment, he felt like the illusion that his family had become was held together only by the constellation of patterns left by the furniture feet set on a rug, by the runes formed in the shadows that the chair backs threw on the walls, and that once those things were moved or faded, he wouldn't know who he was anymore.

For didn't everyone have secret parts and shadows?

There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you never know with shadows.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

DIE KARTOFFELSORTIERMASCHINE rüttelte im Bogen=Lampen=Licht: Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie! / Umdient von 4 Lemuren in fahler Tracht: die Schatten flohen manchmal entsetzt vor ihren eigenen Herren davon. (Zaunzu hülfesuchend? – Bei uns iss ooch keene.)

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

not before it sets off soft pink shades in stucco and stones, turns the mountains from sun burnt orange to shadowed blue.

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

I believe there are aspects of the narrative that become easier to understand by shifting the focus of the story to the characters. Illustrating growth and change in the protagonist becomes a simpler process, and these changes are, in fact, one of the themes of 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice''s story.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.