Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna O'Brien

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

Charles Bukowski

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.

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.

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!

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

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.

William Shakespeare

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here;

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.

Bill Gates

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

We're going to have to shadow someone else.

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.

Carl Jung

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Carl Jung

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

Neil Gaiman

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Rajneesh

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

Socrates

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

Ray Bradbury

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Helmut Kohl

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

James Russell Lowell

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

Mike McGavick

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

Paulo Coelho

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

Max Lucado

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

Peter Fonda

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

Phil Collins

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

Rabindranath Tagore

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Tryon Edwards

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

Sophocles

A human being is only breath and shadow.