Shadow Existence Quotes

#1. What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.

Michel Foucault

#2. Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally.

Drake

#3. It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.

Italo Calvino

#4. The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#5. Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#6. Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

Pindar

#7. Between the desire
And the spasm,
Between the potency
And the existence,
Between the essence
And the descent,
Falls the Shadow.

T. S. Eliot

#8. Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

Dean Potter

#9. I'm in no hurry. What for?
The sun and moon aren't in a hurry: they're right.
Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,
Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.
No; I don't know how to hurry.

Alberto Caeiro

#10. Anger is a loaded weapon, be careful where you point it."~

Frank Sonnenberg

#11. There is only Love
and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

Vera Nazarian

#12. I consider a dream like I consider a shadow," answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. "A shadow is real, but it's less real than a rock. A dream is real - if it weren't, it wouldn't be a dream - but less real than a thing. That's what being real is like.

Alvaro De Campos

#13. Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

Gail Collins

#14. But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

C. G. Jung

#15. Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.

Saint Francis De Sales

#16. I burn, I shiver, out of this sun, into this shadow.

Virginia Woolf

#17. There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.

Virginia Woolf

#18. I must endure for the world, for the children.

Michael Jackson

#19. The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.

Emma Goldman

#20. Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Elizabeth Janeway

#21. We have lived with the shadow of separation our entire lives. Before we even knew of each other's existence, fate conspired to keep us apart. We've always known it could come to this.

Siobhan Davis

#22. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

Alex Kozinski

#23. But how many chose to ignore the direct attack they laid on what is fed to all of us as 'life,' with its well-defined roads to factory and pool-hall, to work and pleasure, both organized, both shells, both a continuation of existence by forced means, in the shadow of life?

Tom McDonough

#24. At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.

W.G. Sebald

#25. Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#26. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. Shadow is not an umbrage only but the proof of our Existence

Samar Sudha

#28. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#29. Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

Karl Marlantes

#30. I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

Oprah Winfrey

#31. 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.

Cordell Hull

#32. One universe, one body ... in this urn
the animal night sweats of the spirit burn

Robert Lowell

#33. but if you love us
choose a younger bed
for I cannot bear
to live with you when I am the older one

Sappho

#34. You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#35. When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#36. It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.

Miriam Toews