Shadow Quotes - Page 25

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.

All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.

We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.