Shadow Quotes - Page 17

And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Peace follows love energy like a shadow.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

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

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

... there are shadows because there are hills.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

Fear cannot touch me… It can only taunt me, It cannot take me, Just tell me where to go… I can either follow, Or stay in my bed… I can hold on To the things that I know… The dead stay dead, They cannot walk. The shadows are darkness. And darkness cannot talk

As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?

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.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light