Quotes About Shadows

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

Positive thoughts multiply, They bring their own images of joy Which erase dark shadows, Bring happiness.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.

Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

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

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.

When his flock thronged into the midnight service, there was wonder on every face at the newly hung greens and the softly flickering candles on each windowsill. To the simple beauty of the historic church was added fresh, green hope, the lush scent of flowers in winter, and candle flame that cast its flickering shadows over the congregation like a shawl.

Judges live with shadows behind them.

I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium.

cada vez hay más zona de sombra. Aunque también haya más iluminada, siempre son más las sombras.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

the secret histories of things deserve to linger, to belong again to the coil of your hair I found once as a child, dried out by shadows, in a shut-tight wooden box

Few western wonders are more inspiring than the beauties of an Arizona moonlit landscape; the silvered mountains in the distance, the strange lights and shadows upon hog back and arroyo, and the grotesque details of the stiff, yet beautiful cacti form a picture at once enchanting and inspiring; as though one were catching for the first time a glimpse of some dead and forgotten world, so different is it from the aspect of any other spot upon our earth.

In absolute and general perfection lies stifling monotony and death. Nature must have contrasts; she must have shadows as well as highlights; sorrow with happiness; both wrong and right; and sin as well as virtue.

and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes