Shadow Quotes - Page 12

God is truth and light his shadow.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart.

Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

...I am the immense shadow of my tears

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved, And our seeking is His seeking And our words are His words... We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him. Sitting by His side, we ask: 'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.

And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan. - Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.