Shadow Quotes - page 2

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow. (Theodore Roethke)
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. View quote
Thomas Paine
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
. . . there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. View quote
George Eliot
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field that, of course, they are many in number or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. View quote
Edmund Burke
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God. View quote
Thomas Browne
Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
How slow the shadow creeps but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast How fast. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress. (Henry Fielding)
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. View quote
Helen Keller
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. View quote
William Blake
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow. View quote
William Wordsworth
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. View quote
Andrew Weil
The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe. View quote
Gabriela Mistral
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good. View quote
John Bradshaw