Shadow Quotes - page 36

And I think, dear friends, if we carried with us more distinctly than we do that one simple thought that in all human joys, in all the apparently self-forgetting tenderness, of that Lord, who had a heart for every sorrow, and an ear for every complaint, and a hand open as day and full of melting charity for every need - that in every moment of that life in the boyhood, in the dawning manhood, in the maturity of His growing power - there was always present one black shadow, toward which He ever went straight with the consent of His will and the clearest eye, we should understand something more of how the life as well as the death was a sacrifice for us sinful men. (Alexander Maclaren)
I love churches in Bombay...they make me think of shadow. Of footfall on stone. In England, churches preside over their habitat till they're gratuitous. View quote
Amit Chaudhuri
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... for each twilight a dawn... for each trial the strength to carry on, For each stormcloud a rainbow... for each shadow the sun... for each parting sweet memories when sorrow is done. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. View quote
Euripides
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door Of a cottage on the shore Of a dark Scottish lake. View quote
Sting (musician)
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him. View quote
Brennan Manning
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross. (Thomas Brooks)
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
Shadow is an amazing subject. Shadow is an absence. As an absence of energy you can compare it to silence or maybe cold air....We talk about photography being simple and architecture being complex and how do you convey something that is more deep, that allows you to dream or think This is weird so you start to dream and think and you maybe go out purely from the picture but into yourself. The light and the shadow are tools to allow you to do that. View quote
Hélène Binet
She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
Through fasting, concentration and prayer, mystics shut out the shifting world of the senses in order to reach a timeless reality. Quite often they find what they seek - but it is only a shadow play, an arabesque of their own anxieties, projected onto an inner screen. They end as they began, stuck fast in the personal time of memory and regret. View quote
John N. Gray
No more starry eyes from behind these dusty spectacles. I'll wipe them and follow my own shadow for a change. View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. View quote
Victor Hugo
I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light. All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled. View quote
Henry Vaughan
Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box. View quote
Robertson Davies
Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box. View quote
Robertson Davies
Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best. (George Walter Thornbury)
It is possible, in the interests of a false religion (such as Nationalism or Fascism) to avert one's eyes from the plain fact of human brotherhood; but the fact stubbornly remains, and we ignore it at our peril. We are all in the same boat, and we live in the shadow of a common doom. View quote
Gerald Bullett
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her. View quote
Charles Dickens
Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment and, Something had passed darkly and gone. View quote
Charles Dickens
Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful. View quote
Charles Dickens