Top 100 Shadows Of Quotes
#1. Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers.
Ravi Zacharias
#2. Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
Markus Zusak
#3. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.
Douglas Adams
#4. You can't begin to change your life while hiding in the shadows of another. Sooner or later, you have to stand strong and accept the light in order to unleash your magic. ~ Pink Pearl the Moluccan
Jes Fuhrmann
#5. And hope, that ancient seed, redeems the heart it feeds. The heartbeat of any conscious now is poised on the same choice that hope gives all of us, between shadows of the past, and the bright, blank page of any new day.
Gregory David Roberts
#6. I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
Lorna Luft
#7. 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
#8. The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.
Terry Goodkind
#9. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection.
Markus Zusak
#10. We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.
Hugh Howey
#11. I'm fine. I'm not even all that hungry. I'd much rather explore the book shop."
"Food first, books after," he said sternly, not liking the dark shadows of fatigue beneath her eyes. Who knew when she'd last slept? "And then we should rest early.
Brooklyn Ann
#12. For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#13. Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
James Allen
#14. We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.
Dick Gephardt
#15. After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
Ray Bradbury
#16. Near the kiosk the old lady who sold refreshments seemed slowly to be gathering all the shadows of evening about her skirts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#17. And then they walk away together, out of the allotted grooves of their afternoons and into the thickening shadows of evening, into the dim, liminal place where on path is taken, and another missed.
Laura Barnett
#18. They burnt down the whole palace and they laughed menacingly. The shadows of the dreams and memories they burnt alive walked all over the ruins, trying to hold on to the charred pieces of their body.
Akshay Vasu
#19. Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
Kay Granger
#20. We're both serving with some of the brightest lights in Starfleet. It's easy to get lost in the shadows of their brilliance.
Kirsten Beyer
#21. I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
as a storyteller. A good storyteller.
Louis L'Amour
#22. In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday's affliction and the hope of tomorrow's gifts.
Ariana Carruth
#23. Gazing at her for a long moment with something like horror, as though he was seeing her for the first time, he spoke. "You are more dangerous than daybreak."
Before Tana could reply, he stepped into the lengthening shadows of morning and was gone.
Holly Black
#24. I'd cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I'd write love poems to the parts of yourself you can't stand. I'd stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I'm not afraid of your dark.
Andrea Gibson
#25. Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel
Oscar Wilde
#26. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher
Marci Shimoff
#27. Each day is a new beginning. You can start fresh, anticipating what today will bring. Or you can just settle for yesterday's doubts, fears, or worries. Which road will you take? Do you take the path to the clear present or the the shadows of the past?
Eve Evangelista
#28. How is it that men create such lovely silhouettes, such shadows of the corporeal, capturing things in their most wraith-like moment and yet they are not content with honing such divine talent? Instead, they opt to dissect the cadaver of that which cast the shadow.
F. Voutsakis
#29. We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. He looked at the daylight shadows of a yellow hue, dancing with the firelight shadows in blue on the whitewashed chimney corner, but there was nothing in shadows.
Thomas Hardy
#31. Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enchantment was lifting, and all I had was painful desire and an indescribable restlessness.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#32. Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne
#33. I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
Johannes Kepler
#34. What's looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
Lierre Keith
#35. The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.
Steven Wright
#36. Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build
Phoebe Cary
#37. Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.
Jurgen Moltmann
#38. She saw the shadows of her children, young again, playing on that tree. And now to be here with him. You cross your own path.
Penelope Lively
#39. The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. There's nothing left worth saying.
Isaac Marion
#40. What appear to be depravity, injury, or extinction are merely traces of memory and experience obscuring the soul. These are merely shadows of the soul, never its substance. The soul itself is always pure and whole.
Ilchi Lee
#41. There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.
Louis L'Amour
#42. The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers' eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
Charles Dickens
#43. Secrets are dark things. They don't exist in the light. They
glow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind-nooks,
in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.
Sukanya Venkatraghavan
#44. Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves.
Jerome K. Jerome
#46. Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.
John Ruskin
#48. Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#49. The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#51. The person of yesterday is in the shadows of the past.
Lisa C. Miller
#52. What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
Boyd K. Packer
#53. Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#54. They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
Joshua Sylvester
#56. Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds ... Lonely trees are not lonely!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. Accept the bloodstained rose. It was an order. The flames cannot save from the chain which binds you."
Shadows of the Hersweald
Hope Ann
#58. but she seemed to be made more of nerves than muscle and was always clutching at herself mentally, starting at shadows of thoughts that crept up on her.
Melanie Jackson
#59. For though, I walk through the valley of shadows of Death, I will never fear. For You are in Me and I know You will never let me Go.
Jestoni Revealed
#60. It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
Helena Blavatsky
#61. in this dangerous time when shadows cast shadows of their own, when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust wore the same face. Weaving
Dean Koontz
#62. If we want to avoid the disaster of one-world-government, if we wish to preserve our priceless national sovereignty and live through all time as free men, then it is imperative that the American people read The Shadows of Power.
Meldrim Thomson Jr.
#63. It only wakes up the burning desire I always feel whenever I'm close to this man and the shadows of my fears back away. - Skye
Stephanie Witter
#64. The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They're lost in the shadows of the moon.
Laura Kreitzer
#65. A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.
Rembrandt
#66. Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.
Theodor Storm
#67. For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.
Chang-rae Lee
#68. When Nick leaves our room, he leaves behind a dark thunder cloud. He has carried the shadow with him for so long that it has become a part of him and has settled in the shadows of the room.
Mariko Nagai
#69. Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. Colour began staining the sky, breathing life into the deathly shadows of dawn.
Ronel Van Tonder
#71. 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
#72. The ignorant teen lived her last days stuck in the shadows of love, yet surrounded by the allure of death.
Nomar Knight
#73. Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.
Ray Bradbury
#74. The world has loosened, like a woman preparing for bed who lets her hair flow free. And I am whispering the words, knowing that words matter, and smiling as I say them to the shadows of the gods of this place who linger in the air to watch me and hear me.
Colm Toibin
#75. Time is a false thing, meaningless when it's not attached to colors and people and light because in the dark there is nothing - only the stilted shadows of lie as they wait for the sun.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#76. The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower. Didn't
Jeff VanderMeer
#77. Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#79. Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to be a messenger of optimism and sunshine.
L.M. Montgomery
#80. Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
Sam Keen
#81. I saw the shadows of the bears before I saw the bears themselves: huge they were, and pale, made of the pages of fierce books: poems ancient and modern prowled the ice floes in bear-shape, filled with words that could wound with their beauty.
Neil Gaiman
#82. The coward says in his heart "There is no love." Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it.
C. JoyBell C.
#83. Although I don't know much about anything, I know that I have a story. I know that it is not over. There are shades and shadows of adventures and people and wild new places. Whatever Paris might turn out to be, and whatever Dr. Epstein is able to do, I want to be there to find out.
Emily Barr
#84. Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
Vladimir Nabokov
#85. Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
Plutarch
#86. Maybe he was worried that I would get thinner and thinner, until I became as unfindable as my mother, and I felt a stab of compassion for him, imagining my father alone in this house with the white shadows of his two invisible women.
Laura Kasischke
#87. This is the life," I said, glimpsing the dark shadows of the night through the tent.
R.S. Grey
#88. I trained and worked really hard all my life in dance classes. I always fell into the shadows of my mother, and it was hard for me to really realize that I had done the work. Yes, she took me to the best teachers, but I did the work.
Vivian Nixon
#89. Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. All the things she could do, other than sit here, were gathering in the cool shadows of the house behind her, watching through the window. She was nailed to the chair.
Lauren Groff
#91. To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
Socrates
#92. Outside the windows, the land was as flat, as interesting, as the head of an anvil, and the shadows of the corn advanced like the rifle barrels of an approaching army.
Stephen Wright
#93. Shadows of deserts are as beautiful as the shining lights on the surface of oceans!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. The world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can
the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
Frederick Buechner
#96. Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
Oscar Wilde
#97. Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.
Alice Meynell
#98. When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit.
Deborah Sandella
#99. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr Wind-up Bird? They're nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts.
Haruki Murakami
#100. He's made of shadows - of night, Kat. You won't see him until he wants you to. Oh. Well. Shit.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
