Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Spender

Who live under the shadow of a war,/ What can I do that matters?

Tracy Kidder

I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically.

Keith Robinson

What we wanted to do was shadow them and get up on any shot.

What we have now is a world-class stream, right in the shadow of Wal-Mart.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Charles Dickens

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

William Shakespeare

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here;

Catherynne M. Valente

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

Carl Jung

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Carl Jung

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

Beth Moore

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Bill Wyman

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

Bill Gates

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

We're going to have to shadow someone else.

Bill Johnson

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you

Jandy Nelson

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

Jane Hirshfield

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Juvenal

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Charles Bukowski

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.

Antonio Porchia

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

Edward Young

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Edward Young

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Edna O'Brien

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

Adelbert von Chamisso

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Aberjhani

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

Allen Tate

The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts....

Aeschylus

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

Anna Akhmatova

My shadow serves as the friend I crave

Czeslaw Milosz

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

Conrad Hall

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

Alex Kingston

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.