Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Catherynne M. Valente

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

Bill Johnson

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you

Beth Moore

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Bill Wyman

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

We're going to have to shadow someone else.

Edna O'Brien

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Juvenal

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Democritus

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Democritus

Word is a shadow of a deed.

Charles Bukowski

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Abdul Kalam

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

She was like my shadow and I don't have my shadow no more. She's gone.

Adelbert von Chamisso

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Allen Tate

The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts....

Aberjhani

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

Aeschylus

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

Tracy Kidder

I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically.

Jandy Nelson

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Antonio Porchia

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

Edward Young

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Edward Young

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Anna Akhmatova

My shadow serves as the friend I crave

Czeslaw Milosz

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

Conrad Hall

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

Claude Debussy

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Anna Katharine Green

The very shadows seem to listen.

Alex Kingston

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.