Quotes About Shadows

Keep your face to sunshine and you cannot see the shadows

Alles nach dem ist Ernüchterung, Abschattung nach diesem Rausch von Farben und Formen, nach der göttlichen Vielfalt dieser Stadt.

Él miró sin proferir palabra. También a él algo le cortaba el habla. Finalmente dejó la vela sobre la cómoda, y enseguida el juego de sombras que aleteaba en el espacio como un murciélago se tranquilizó.

Iss?z bir parkta karlar içinde Ar?yor geçmiÅŸi iki gölge.

After all, shadows themselves are born of light.

the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the stiff hedges to fall at the feet of a stone nymph, her cascade of water frozen in her urn.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.

He loved the city most at night. The night hid many of the sorrows. It silenced the city yet brought deep undercurrents to the surface. It was in this dark slipstream that he believed he moved most freely. Behind the cover of shadows. Like a rider in a limousine, he looked out but no one looked in. There was a random feel to the dark, the quirkiness of chance played out in the blue neon light. So many ways to live. And to die.

He loved the city most at night. The night hid many of the sorrows. It silenced the city yet brought deep undercurrents to the surface. It was in this dark slipstream that he believed he moved most freely. Behind the cover of shadows. Like a rider in a limousine, he looked out but no one looked in.

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.

Half the life of cities occurs at night,' Olive Lawrence warned us. 'There's a more uncertain morality then

The sun comes every day. Save the string. I put it in lines across the room. I watched him creep his body though the grilled windows. When the sun touches the first string wham it is 10 o'clock. It is 2 o'clock when he touches the second. When the shadow of the first string is under the second string it is 4 o'clock. When it reaches the door it will soon be dark.

Queen of Night is as close to black as a flower gets, though in fact it is a dark and glossy maroonish purple. Its hue is so dark, however, that it appears to draw more light into itself than it reflects, a kind of floral black hole. In the garden, depending on the the angle of the sun, the blossoms of a Queen of Night may read as positive or negative space, as flowers or shadows of a flower.

Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.

Love is the pursuit of shadows.

They came on one of April's most brilliant days--a day as sparkling as a newly-washed lemon...a day when even the shadows were a melange of blue and orange and jade, like the shadows that poured from the tipsy brush of Monet.

Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware.

It was full of lazy late-afternoon shadows and an impossible green lushness such as could only be appreciated by someone freshly arrived

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.