Shadow Quotes - Page 7

You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

We are all afraid of something. But that shouldn't stop us from going on every day. We should not always walk in fear of the shadow while we are in the light. It is certain we will not know when or how the difficult and bad times will come, but if we accept that they will come, then they are easier to face when they do. And always remember that anything that causes the shadow is smaller than the source of light.

The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.

To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.)

You're not only the spotlight in which you perform, but the shadows where you practice.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

A human being is only breath and shadow.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.