Shadow Quotes - Page 2

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.

Above all shadows rides the sun.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

My shadow serves as the friend I crave

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.