Shadow Quotes - Page 38

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is awareness, watchfulness. The only thing that is not part of the world of action is pure awareness. No shadow is created by pure awareness. It is so pure that light can pass through it - it is transparent and no shadow is created.

What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.

I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.

I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.

I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.

The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love.

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.