Shadow Quotes - Page 27

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.

What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.

Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent.

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

The things we are attached to are no more than shadows of the past.

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow plane, paint the lights cool and the shadows warm, and in the sunlight plane, paint the lights warm and shadows cool.

That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot of a week ago had turned out to be a real revolution and the shadow of death actually threatened all of us who were of the ruling cast.

No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.