Quotes About Living In The Shadows

#1. Sometimes it gets old, living in the shadows. Somehow they're not quite so dark when you're around.

A.L. Jackson

#2. You're my sunshine, my rain and my evening stars I feel as though I was living in the shadows and you have entered my life in a blaze of color and light which as illuminated my very existence.

Marie Coulson

#3. Living in the shadows is cold... know this before you go living there.

Deyth Banger

#4. Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.

Steve Israel

#5. You know, the eleven million people living in the shadows, I believe, they're already American citizens ... These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that standard alone eleven million undocumented aliens are already Americans in my view.

Joe Biden

#6. There are 11 million people living in the shadows. I believe they deserve to come out of the shadows. The children who are brought here when they were children, they deserve that kind of consideration as well.

John McCain

#7. I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#8. Don't let the regret of the past take the better part of you,because you are a precious child of God.And our God needs you to stop living in the shadows of the past and be whole again with Him.

Rhodalyne Doku

#9. If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.

C. JoyBell C.

#10. What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#11. Certain living things prefer the dark, thriving in the shadows of tombstones and crypts, flowering admist the dead. Others tend toward the sun, blooming in the light, embracing the warmth.

Fiona Paul

#12. They are thought pictures -- the outstanding headlands of the meandering shores of life, and are points to steer by on the broad sea of thought and experience. They body forth in living forms and colors the ever varying lights and shadows of the soul.

Frederick Douglass

#13. I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

Kevin McCloud

#14. The new living flesh was replicating the old in a game, we were a chain of shadows who had always been on the stage with the same burden of love, hatred, desire, and violence.

Elena Ferrante

#15. Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#16. Child, if you forever hide in the shadows, watching life through a window, you will miss the many lessons learned by simply living.

Nancy Wald

#17. Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

#18. When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which there is not a single thread of darkness?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. For the shadows to stop growing. For people to stop being angry.

Ava Dellaira

#20. I stepped into the shadows, telling myself not to be afraid. Yet I knew I would either find something worth living for or I would stay dead.

Zachary Koukol

#21. He knew that all of them were shadows: the chanters, the dead, the living. All shadows, moving across this landscape of mountains and valleys, changing the pattern of things as they moved but leaving nothing changed when they left. Only the shadows themselves could change.

Karl Marlantes

#22. He looked at me with sunken eyes, unburdened by any great curiosity and ringed in gray and dark-blue shadows that logged his hard living like tree rings.

Christopher Scotton

#23. The witchlight cut into the shadows that seemed to hang in the room like a living thing. Emma wondered how big the cave really was, and how much of it was a shifting illusion.

Cassandra Clare

#24. Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Thomas Browne

#25. Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.

Anthony Liccione

#26. There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.

Giuliana Tedeschi Brunelli

#27. As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.

William Law

#28. There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.

Romain Rolland

#29. Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

Maralee McKee

#30. Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#31. Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man

Maynard James Keenan

#32. There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

Dana Schutz

#33. Let the new faces play what tricks they will
In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,
Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,
The living seem more shadowy than they.

William Butler Yeats

#34. The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

Antonin Artaud

#35. You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

Adi Shankara

#36. Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware.

Bill Bryson

#37. I hadn't hold out much hope for myself; if my counterpart existed, he'd be amazingly talented to make up for my shortcoming, and that would condemn me to a life of living in his shadows; or he'd match my feeble powers and be so weak that we'd barely sense each other.

Joss Stirling