Quotes About Shadows

In winter when I put a quilt over myself its shadows on the wall seem to sway like an elephant.

Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow

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The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

Lies told fresh in the night fires of our dwindling solstice. A yarn becomes a legend. Tobacco spittle sears on charred logs. Light like foot lamps in a Bowery cabaret. Shadows fall upwardly to dance on a white forehead. All ablaze but the sockets of the eyes. Dark rings hold their truths. A good man turns wicked by the light of a Sturgeon Moon. Mephistopheles one and all. Savage saturnalia.

It is the end of a fine bronze-tinted afternoon with purple shadows and febrile scraps of cloud.

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

In his world, there was right and wrong, good and evil. Hers contained no absolutes. Hers was a world of grays. Hers was what his was truly becoming. The irony didn't escape him. At night, nothing was clear. Lines blurred. Shadows removed definitions. Her dreams led her to the darkest parts of London where he couldn't follow and keep her safe. His dreams had ceased to exist long ago.

The skies were overcast. As the carriage rumbled along, Rafe watched the shadows weave in and out, dance over and around her as she gazed out the window. And blast it all if he didn't envy their ability to touch her so lightly.

O imperceptible movements of bodies, you signify, each time, a great philosophical resolution of the shadows : gentle translations, none of the wilfulness of your birth is lost. It is the hour of the frisson which bears an astonishing resemblance to a stroke of black ink. We are delighted to be inkwells.

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

Old sins have long shadows," said Gamache. "And this is an old sin.

Shadows were distancing themselves from the trees, the statues, the people. Elongating.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

Darkness, you know, is relative.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is the fountain. These are but drops; but God is the ocean.16

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here. [ Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died ]

I used to measure the heavens Now the Earth's shadows I measure My mind was in the heavens, Now the shadow of my body rests here

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Sky-bound was the mind, earthbound the body rests.

I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure. Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests.

Although it was autumn and not summer the dark-gold sunlight and the inky shadows, long and slender in the shape of felled cypresses, were the same, and there was the same sense of everything drenched and jewelled and the same ultramarine glitter on the sea. I felt inexplicably lightened; it was as if the evening, in all the drench and drip of its fallacious pathos, had temporarily taken over from me the burden of grieving.

Never let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your future. Try a little dosage of Forgiveness and step forward to the more rewarding joy of happy living.