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Quotes About Shadows

Shadows suited him. On James they skittered and fled, even in the dark, leaving him bright and shining. On Alex they clung and caressed, dressing him in mystery.
~ Megan Hart
Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Magic of the shadows can best be seen in the deserts.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Twilight was already coagulating into night.
~ Unknown
it was black as a sinner's heart once night fell,
~ Unknown
One voice whispered Beloved . She spread her colors on the starshine to embrace this land he had given her, and there were no shadows to darken the Fire soaring across the sand. Only light, only joy. No one heard Elisel scream. Only the dragons saw her rise into the night sky like an arrow, mute after that one keening wail. It was two days before she returned to Skybowl. Long before that, they found Sioned.
~ Melanie Rawn
The man on the ceiling casts shadows of flesh, and sometimes the shadows take on lives of their own.
~ Unknown
What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
~ Melissa Marr
Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like those in her court, this faery had a tangled feel to him. Shadow and radiance. He didn't look much older than her, until she saw the arrogance in his posture. Then, he reminded her of Irial, of Bananach, of Keenan, of the faeries who walked through courts and crowds confident that they could slaughter everyone in the room. Like chaos in a glass cage.
~ Melissa Marr
Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine. The thought, the need, the reaction was overpowering. Leslie looked up. "This one." she said. "I need this one. But the image is more than just tempting art, and it draws her into a world of shadows and desire- into the world of Faerie.
~ Melissa Marr
Qué significa que las pesadillas sueñen con la paz? ¿Que lassombras suspiren por la luz?
~ Melissa Marr
Contar una historia es echar sombras a la lumbre. En ese preciso instante, todo lo que la palabra revela lo consume el silencio. Solo quien reza entregando por completo el alma sabe lo que significa ese arder y esa caída de la palabra en los abismos.
~ Mia Couto
Perhaps, after all, his anguish was so persuasive that it could eclipse the most real things and make them appear as shadows, and at the same time make shadows into an appearance of the real.
~ Unknown
Knockturn Alley
~ Unknown
windows are ringed with dark shadows of soot that leak like a beauty queen's tears
~ Michael Robotham
Cuando muere lo más puro Cualquier gozo se invalida Queda el pecho como hueco, Y hay sombras por donde mires.
~ Michel Houellebecq
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.
~ Michelle Sagara West
Não acredito em Alá mas senti, já muitas vezes, a força da sua crença nas sombras do palmar de Tamanrasset, no som a dágua correndo, como se fosse um milagre, no oásis de Targhit ou nos azulejos verdes do Alhambra.
~ Unknown
I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.
~ Mike Carey
The artist inhabits a strange world, an insubstantial world of shadows and essences, one whose boundaries are perhaps more permeable than normal
~ Unknown
But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Who is the beauty icon that inspires you the most? Is it Sophia Loren? Audrey Hepburn? Halle Berry? Mine is Nosferatu, because that vampire taught me my number-one and number-two favorite beauty tricks of all time: avoid the sun at all costs and always try to appear shrouded in shadows.
~ Mindy Kaling