Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. P. Lovecraft

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

Jean Baudrillard

Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent.

Herman Melville

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

Jean Rhys

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Above all shadows rides the sun.

Immanuel Kant

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Homer

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

George Herbert

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

William S. Burroughs

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Samuel Rogers

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Lauren Oliver

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

Martin Amis

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

Tennessee Williams

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

Peter Fonda

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

Rabindranath Tagore

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

It's as if they can shadow you on the Web.

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.

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.

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

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.

Aberjhani

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

Aeschylus

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

David Whyte

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

Dante Alighieri

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

William Shakespeare

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)