Shadow Woman Quotes

#1. A woman ran at our car screaming, a few of the shadow people chasing her, but before I could even touch the brake she must have changed her mind, because she had already turned into a shadow person herself. It's like, ugh, run from the shadow people or become one. Make up your mind, lady!

Joseph Fink

#2. Okay, so maybe they aren't the greatest generation by anyone's standard, but they are surely the best of the bottom third percentile of their own somewhat muddled and suspect generation.

Ben Fountain

#3. Mummy became a shadow, a woman who had lost herself because she had never found herself. She had always done the right thing, and I had a feeling that the right thing is always going to be the wrong thing, that you find yourself by stepping out of yourself.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. It seemed to Don Jaime that you could find in the memory of every man the bittersweet shadow of a woman.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#5. As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

Boris Pasternak

#6. The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

Ben Parr

#7. A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere.

Keri Hulme

#8. You might not have seen a pale, plump woman, who walked the path near the front gates, and if you had seen her, with a second, more careful glance you would have realized that she was only moonlight, mist, and shadow.

Neil Gaiman

#9. The old woman was a witch shadow - hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded 'round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.

Frank Herbert

#10. When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.

Richard Meier

#11. Just as there is an archetype of woman as the object of man's eternal love, so there must be an archetype of her as the object of his eternal fear, representing, perhaps, the shadow of his own evil actions.

Fumiko Enchi

#12. I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

Madeleine L'Engle

#13. All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

Camille Paglia

#14. My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive.

Terry Tempest Williams

#15. It is not the lack of wit or intellect that shallow men crave [in women], it is lack of personality; they desire a woman who will exist only as a shadow to themselves, because this gives them the illusion that they have some importance, that they are more than cattle.

Steven Brust

#16. A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

George Eliot

#17. God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage.

Amin Maalouf

#18. A woman can lend a man the strength to conquer a kingdom, and bring him to his knees with one breath.

Brandy Nacole

#19. I tell you, I will never understand the mystery of love. A woman comes to a man because she wants only him; then she cannot bear the sound of air moving in and out of his nostrils. She cannot bear the sight of his shadow upon the pavement!

Elizabeth Berg

#20. That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

Suzanne Curchod

#21. Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

Aldous Huxley

#22. Shadow thought about how you made the moon seem to come out of the sky and become a silver dollar, and what made a woman get out of her grave and walk across town to talk to you.

Neil Gaiman

#23. His shadow stretched out past mine. I remembered Mom telling me how frightening men were, all men really, how helpless it often felt to be a woman among men, and for the first time I understood what she meant.

Meredith Russo

#24. I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.

Thomas Perry

#26. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#27. I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.

Usain Bolt

#28. A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Nicolas Chamfort

#29. He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain.

Diana Palmer

#30. Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

#31. She was looking at him from under level brows; her face was grave and open, and there had fallen upon it the shadow of that unreasoning responsibility which is at the bottom of the most frivolous woman, the maternal watch which is as old as the world.

G.K. Chesterton

#32. High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.

Anthony Giddens

#33. When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.

Jane Green