Shadow Quotes - Page 22

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.

In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.

It was exciting to work with director Jennifer Baichwal, who made Manufactured Landscapes and others, on the film of Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. It's called, simply, PAYBACK. Jennifer didn't want to do a transliteration of the book, a kind of illustrated version, but to go into the core of the book: owing and being owed, paying and paying back, on all sorts of levels. So she found real-life, visceral stories that embodied the themes of the book.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a crayon. It really helped me in the beginning, because I understood how light and shadow were working on an image.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.