Shadow Quotes - Page 15

All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.

I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

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