Shadow Quotes - Page 26

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours." "Thank you." "Sank you." "Not sank you, Señora Gregorio, thank you." "Sank you.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.

Cam stepped into the clearing. His eyes were rimmed with a thick, shimmering gold shadow, and it shone on his face in the moonlight, making him look like a wildcat.

I’m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person’s face from the hat and be like “Do you see that!” It’s about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.