Shadow Quotes - page 4

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. View quote
Margaret Atwood
But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow... View quote
Louisa May Alcott
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven. View quote
Bernard of Clairvaux
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil! View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Out of the shadow of the abstract man, who thinks for the pleasure of thinking, emerges the organic man, who thinks because of a vital imbalance, and who is beyond science and art. View quote
Emil Cioran
Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women. View quote
Emil Cioran
Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first. (Ben Jonson)
I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one. It wasn't doing what I was doing. View quote
Steven Wright
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself. View quote
Cordell Hull
"Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black.""Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment."And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment. View quote
Stephen Crane
To those who say - My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say - To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states' rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body. View quote
Baldassare Castiglione
When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen. View quote
John Millington Synge
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won. View quote
George Foreman
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment? View quote
Djuna Barnes
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat. View quote
Elizabeth Bishop
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past. (Erica Jong)
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out. View quote
Paul Keating
All men - even, I have written, Jesus Christ - began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes. View quote
Camille Paglia
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons-afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it, then we have reconciliation. View quote
Saul Alinsky
The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked... View quote
Chuck Palahniuk