Top 100 Like A Shadow Quotes
#1. He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
Michel De Montaigne
#2. Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.
William Irwin Thompson
#3. Everyone has a dark side. This is pure fact. I can see it like a shadow behind them all the time.
Suzanne Palmieri
#4. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.'- Buddha
Elias Axmar
#5. Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.
Andrew Schneider
#6. Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.
Rajneesh
#8. Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
Ambrose
#9. Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#10. A true well-wisher follows you like a shadow.
Cifar
#11. Only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#12. She walked on and on till she melted out of the picture - like - like a shadow jumping over a candle ...
Rudyard Kipling
#13. Each time i thought about him, the idea that i would never be able to reach him spread through my mind like a shadow.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#14. Peace follows love energy like a shadow.
Rajneesh
#15. So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a shadow she first came to me in the loneliness of the night. Like a shadow she passes away in the loneliness of the dead
Wilkie Collins
#16. Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#17. I'll be so quiet for you.
Look like a child for you.
Be like a shadow of a shadow
Of a shadow for you.
Mike Hadreas
#18. The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
Isabel Allende
#19. The shadow of decay and disintegration lurked everywhere, and I was part of it. Like a shadow burned into a wall
Haruki Murakami
#20. Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
William Shakespeare
#22. Jack stopped at the entrance, cupping my face. "Stick to me like a shadow, you." How many times had he told me that?
"I regenerate. I need to go first!"
Dafuq. "You're goan to stay behind me and step where I step. Same for you, coo-yon. This ain't up for discussion!
Kresley Cole
#23. We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life ... maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.
Anthony Hopkins
#24. There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.
Kevin Brockmeier
#25. Your reputation is like a shadow, following you wherever you go.
Frank Sonnenberg
#26. When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.
Robert Fisk
#27. Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with an impure mind, suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox. Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with peaceful mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Joseph Goldstein
#28. Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.
Gautama Buddha
#29. Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.
Helen Keller
#30. Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Alexander Pope
#31. He seemed so cold. Like a shadow caused by heat and light falling on someone honorable and true, casting this black imitation behind.
Brandon Sanderson
#32. I feel terribly strange, like a shadow, and full of dread. I dread the time ahead, the amputating time, I do not see how to manage it. I do not want the world to go dark and narrow and mean, and the world has been very unlovely in my eyes, and I very unlovely in it ...
Martha Gellhorn
#33. Everyone has a temptation; a weakness that they would yield to. Mine is you. Not only you, but your love. For your love is unique. For you are the other half of my soul. I feel you, even when you are not there. It's like a shadow. You are my shadow. Your love follows me every step I tread.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#34. Depression, it settles like a shadow over your body while you sleep, and it mutes every frequency into blankness, into fog. Everyone things you can't laugh when you're depressed, but I couldn't cry either, because I couldn't FEEL.
Emery Lord
#35. afflict; - he had become a clod of earth, and his life was vanished like a shadow!
Ann Radcliffe
#36. Freedom is based on the anarch's awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. A leap from this bridge will set me free.
Ernst Junger
#37. A breath of sound across the landing, almost imperceptible, like a shadow moving against blackness; then nothing.
Tana French
#38. My father sighed, hiding behind the sad smile that
followed him like a shadow all through his life.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#39. We need each other more then some people think, their behavior is like a shadow from themselves in a dream, they will realize this when one day wake up, together strong, United unbeatable.
Jan Jansen
#40. I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
#41. Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.
Karen Horney
#42. Evil is like a shadow. It follows you.
Yaa Gyasi
#43. But in after years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walked behind him on the same ruinous path down into the Void.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#44. Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?
Andre Comte-Sponville
#45. In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
Gwen John
#46. This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#47. If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.
Mark The Evangelist
#48. But Jules will not give up. Not even if it is the queens' sixteenth birthday, and Beltane is in four months' time, falling like a shadow.
Kendare Blake
#49. He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.
Anthony Marra
#51. She didn't watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning.
Ray Bradbury
#52. Let emotions happen naturally. If we try to control them they will never be released and will stick with us like a shadow. But if we can observe them with no judgement, no labels and when we do label them because it's difficult transmute them into positive creativity.
Matthew Donnelly
#53. Epression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
Alexander Pushkin
#54. Every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait.
Marlon James
#56. Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.
Clare Of Assisi
#57. Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing.
Milan Kundera
#58. They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.
Erin Bow
#59. But it doesn't matter. Nothing matters now. And the sound of her voice in the forest was just like a little tremulous song. And the leaves turn even more yellow, fall is approaching; more stars have appeared in the sky, and from now on the moon looks like a shadow of silver dipped in gold.
Knut Hamsun
#60. This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
Al-Ghazali
#61. She slipped away unseen, like a shadow's shadow.
Clive Barker
#62. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
Gautama Buddha
#63. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Gautama Buddha
#64. My greatest affliction ... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
Tennessee Williams
#65. Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.
Gautama Buddha
#66. If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends
Elizabeth Gaskell
#67. One he couldn't see, hear, or touch.like a He could only feel it like a hidden shadow. Malevolent and He could only feel it like a hidden shadow. Malevolent
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard
#69. History is full of people who thought they were right
absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.
John D. Barrow
#70. Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk
Christopher Moore
#71. The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.
C.S. Lewis
#72. The stars are putting on their glittering belts,
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment
Wallace Stevens
#73. There is something eternally satisfying about lying motionless for hours on end, watching the world move around us like the shadow on a sundial.
Fennel Hudson
#74. He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.
Garrett Leigh
#75. I think Adrian really likes you. Like, in a wanting-to-be-serious way."
I shook my head and stepped back. "Nope. He likes me in a wanting-to-get-the-clothes-off-the-cute-dhampir way.
Richelle Mead
#76. She was in person full-limbed and somewhat heavy; without ruddiness, as without pallor; and soft to the touch as a cloud. To see her hair was to fancy that a whole winter did not contain darkness enough to form its shadow: it closed over her forehead like nightfall extinguishing the western glow.
Thomas Hardy
#77. I'm not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person's face from the hat and be like "Do you see that!" It's about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.
Laura Owens
#78. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.
Mervyn Peake
#79. In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally - it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.
Edouard Manet
#80. This new happiness had angles. Happiness like his was real; it had a jewel-cut shadow, and he could lose it.
Karen Russell
#81. Shadow felt like a pea being flicked between three cups, or a card being shuffled through a deck.
Neil Gaiman
#82. How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.
Oscar Wilde
#83. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. Beyond the snowy trees, the endless high-rises of Seoul have faded to a blurry gray shadow, but their presence hasn't dwindled. Even in the poor visibility, there's no denying that the city feels like the walls of a fortress, a fortress that is both protecting us and trapping us.
Paula Stokes
#85. To add to the effect, he hadn't shaved in a day or two, and a shadow of dark blond fuzz covered the bottom half of his face like a smile.
Kiera Cass
#86. With the news reporting soaring food prices and shrinking crops on all continents, the project made sense, even good sense. But he nevertheless felt unsettled about it, like a warning he had received and then forgotten, the shadow of a Kraken passing beneath the surface.
Berit Ellingsen
#87. I wither slowly in thine arms; here at the quiet limit of the world, a white hair'd shadow roaming like a dream.
Alfred Tennyson
#88. I used to be followed by a moon shadow. Now I'm followed by all these misconceptions, and they're like a ball and chain. I just want to write music from my heart and give people a message of hope and the search for a better place.
Cat Stevens
#89. That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.
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Steen Langstrup
#90. There were angry clouds building up behind the moutains, black-gray clouds, great clumps of them colored just like cotton balls after Aunt Ruth cleaned off her eye makeup from a big night out, all gunky with mascara and eye shadow. (p 378)
Emily M. Danforth
#91. Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt
Ray Bradbury
#92. Everyone looks at me like I'm stark naked standing on a glacier petting a penguin.
Brandy Nacole
#93. Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.
Allison Mackie
#94. Love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow ...
Tennessee Williams
#95. Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow.
Ray Bradbury
#96. I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
Stephen King
#97. A werewolf. He said the word like he was learning a foreign language and wanted to get the accent right.
Tielle St. Clare
#98. Lord, what is man, that You care for him, the son of man, that You think of him? 4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Anonymous
#99. The thought gave me reassurance for a split-second - until I saw the danger in it. The power to make me feel better also gave her the power to hurt me. With love came fear. It's like sun and shadow. How do you separate them?
Kate Morgenroth
#100. But that was just a shadow of what would come to pass:
When one appointed season Christ came to die at last.
And in the name of justice they flogged him like a thief,
But willing was the victim of human disbelief.
Joyce Rachelle
