Shadow Falls Quotes

#1. As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.

Stefan Zweig

#2. We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?

Bonnie Friedman

#3. When he is cheerful
when the sun shines into his mind
then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. Your father is only your father
until one of you forgets. Like how the spine
won't remember its wings
no matter how many times our knees
kiss the pavement. Ocean,
are you listening? The most beautiful part
of your body is wherever
your mother's shadow falls.

Ocean Vuong

#5. Like a mountain path that ends at a cliff
I travel along the edge of your thoughts,
and my shadow falls from your white forehead,
my shadow shatters, and I gather the pieces
and go with no body, groping my way

Octavio Paz

#6. Burnett stared down at her and his brows tightened the way they did right before he started arguing. The fact that she knew his pre-arguing expressions said a lot about their relationship.
Hunter, C. C. (2014-10-28). Eternal: Shadow Falls: After Dark (p. 304). St. Martin's Press. Kindle Edition.

C.C. Hunter

#7. The gnomons's shadow falls where it falls - and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.

Samantha Sotto

#8. Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the Shadow.

Salman Rushdie

#9. Get up, go and be like him as much as one alive can be like the dead - without dying. Conceive him, yet be your death, too, almost. Like him be now, but only till the shadow of his end falls on the shadow of your being.

David Grossman

#10. You two have to get along, or avoid each other," Burnett spouted out, as if fully aware of what had turned her eyes a light yellow. "No bloodshed."
Dells frowned. "You always take the joy out of things."
(della talking about chase)

C.C. Hunter

#11. Between funny and witty
Falls the shadow

Stephen Fry

#12. This was made for you, I think. For the person you're going to become.
A weapon to fight Death, in its form as the shadow of despair that falls on human minds and drains away their hope for the future.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#13. Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.

R.S. Thomas

#15. Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.

Mocco Wollert

#16. Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

T. S. Eliot

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

T. S. Eliot

#18. Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow

T. S. Eliot

#19. Shadow is Light's child. It is nothing without the Light, and nothing if it falls into Darkness.

Anne Hamilton

#20. Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

T. S. Eliot

#21. Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Hilaire Belloc

#22. Autumn afternoon:
a sycamore leaf
falls softly
and rests
on its own shadow

Abbas Kiarostami

#23. A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cotton-fields. This, then, is the Cotton Kingdom
the shadow of a marvelous dream.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#24. Kylie thought hell would be announcing a snow day before she agreed with anything her mom said. But right now, Kylie wondered how many inches they were predicting.

C.C. Hunter

#25. Della?" he muttered-
"Yes?"
"I love you."
"You are not dying!" she seethed.
He chuckled. "I didn't say I was ... But just in case." his knees gave. She caught him,-

C.C. Hunter

#26. Between the emotion and the response falls the shadow, T.S. Eliot said,

Niall Williams

#27. Tagore's direct narrative prose is clear water. At times the light changes over it, a shadow passes, and when night falls the water too takes on night's opacity.

Sharmistha Mohanty

#28. Every time I am in the dark and a bit of light falls on me, I see a bit of you in my shadows. There is always a bit of you in every song I hear, in every thought I conceive, in every rain that I drench in, in every star that I stare at in the sky every night and in every breeze that touches me.

Akshay Vasu

#29. I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.

C.C. Hunter

#30. When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed.

Volkmar Wentzel

#31. Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

Salman Rushdie

#32. Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Richard K. Morgan

#33. When you make a mistake, son, you face it.
he's gonna yell at me, dad
well, yeah. you broke his window. he has the right to yell.
(chase and his dad)

C.C. Hunter

#34. You sure you okay?" he asked.
this time she decided to go for the truth. "No. But 'okay' is overrated.

C.C. Hunter

#35. Autumn
The cheerful sundial;
it falls in the shadow
of thy leaves.
there
where your branches
brace themselves
against the gate of heaven

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#36. My Templeton is to Cooperstown as a shadow is to the tree that spawned it; an outline that takes texture from the ground it falls on.

Lauren Groff

#37. Because ... as you already know from experience, I wont abandon a damsel in distress

Marilyn Phillips