Shadow Quotes - Page 42

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself. 'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didn’t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.' But let me tell you it is not done ― not on an empty road at midnight.

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.

A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.

I study Carl Jung, who talks a lot about the shadow side, the repressed side. I think the scariest thing in the world is repression. There's plenty to be idealistic about, but we have to be aware of all sides of ourselves, and there are definitely shadows in all of us.

Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.

We live on planet earth, we have the sun, and it's the most beautiful thing, the way the sun dances and the way shadows are cast.

You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it as a pivotal turn, a work that really led me down the avenues that brought me to where I am. That picture was the vehicle that helped me clarify a lot of things and I began to understand that I wanted to do.

We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality.

His eyes glow in the shadows as he slides the soft liquid semen dripping down my thigh in a path leading back into my swollen entry, as if he doesn't want to come out of my body. "Sticky?" he asks in a gruff murmur, bending his head and licking my shoulder as he pushes his semen back inside with one finger.

Apply loose powder on top of the foundation under your eyes, so if a little shadow spills, it's easier to wipe off.

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.