Shadow Quotes - page 11

Soundlessly, shadow with shadow, we wrestled together, Till the grey dawn. (Alfred Noyes)
A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness, Thoughts without sound; Sorrowful thoughts that filled me with helpless wonder And held me bound. View quote
Alfred Noyes
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud... View quote
Yann Martel
Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by. View quote
Yann Martel
... They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow. View quote
Zadie Smith
Truly, we are dust and shadow; truly, desire is blind and greedy; truly, hope deceives. View quote
Petrarch
Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between. View quote
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. View quote
Ferdinand Magellan
I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow. View quote
Juan Gris
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
On the whole, ought I not to rejoice that God was pleased to give me such a father; that from earliest years I had the example of a real man of God's own making continually before me? Let me learn of him. Let me write my books as he built his houses, and walk as blamelessly through this shadow world; if God so will, to rejoin him at last. Amen. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
All shadows have their light, each shadow being an autonomous unit forming a new individuality with its own chiaroscuro: it is no longer a form that is half-shadow, half-light, as hat hitherto been the case. View quote
Umberto Boccioni
Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invented early enough to have photographed him, most Bardolators would choose the photograph. This is not just because it would presumably show what Shakespeare really looked like, for even if the photograph were faded, barely legible, a brownish shadow, we would probably still prefer it to another glorious Holbein. Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from the True Cross. View quote
Susan Sontag
To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world-in order to set up a shadow world of "meanings." View quote
Susan Sontag
There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. View quote
Cicero
And if I ever lose my hands, Lose my power, lose my land. Oh, if I ever lose my hands, Ooh, I won't have to work no more.And if I ever lose my eyes, If my colors all run dry. Yes, if I ever lose my eyes, Ooh, I won't have to cry no more.Yes, I'm bein' followed by a moon shadow, Moon shadow, moon shadow. Leapin' and hoppin' on a moon shadow, Moon shadow, moon shadow. View quote
Cat Stevens
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition. View quote
Hugh Kingsmill
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. View quote
Marcel Marceau
Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? - for brown were his father's eyes, and his father's father's. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil. (W. E. B. Du Bois)
For the sake of having her with me I had to tolerate the shadow of a tracksuited poet, but one who has taken the guise of a man in love will indiscriminately eat and drink platefuls of thistles, barrels of vinegar. View quote
Cees Nooteboom
Because he attempted to tell [in his painting 'The Jewish Cemetery' painted by Ruisdael,] that which is outside the reach of art... .there are ruins to indicate old age, a stream to signify the course of life, and rocks and precipices to shadow forth its dangers. But how are we to discover all this? View quote
John Constable
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. View quote
David Hockney
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord