Shadow Quotes

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

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

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.