Shadow Quotes - Page 23

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . .

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

Word is a shadow of a deed.

Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?

Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.