Shadow Quotes - Page 21

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

One must always be careful of books.

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.

Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.