Shadow Quotes - Page 11

• Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sunshine, People

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1056, e-artnow

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• It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

  Lou Gehrig

  Yankees, Giving, Rooms

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• If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Brighter, Ifs

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• If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.

  Helen Keller

  Sunshine, Looks, Ifs

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• I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.

  Dov Davidoff

  Alone Time, Feels, Crowded

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• My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Gone, My Soul

  Fernando Pessoa (1974). “Selected Poems”

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• We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It's hard to argue with death as a game-changer.

  Bryan Fuller

  Shadow Of Death, Games, Wild Life

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion." Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crazy, Lying, Fall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.95, A&C Black

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• Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Angel, Vampire, Fairy

  "Why women find vampires hot" by Jeaniene Frost, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2010.

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• I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

  Alan Moore

  Regret, Steps, Compromise

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• Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Peace, Way

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• Shadow turned. Her eyes were wet; she smiled at him wanley. "I'll be she loved you.

  Catherine Fisher

  Eye, Her Eyes, Wet

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• I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Light, Understanding

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• Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Fear, Abuse, Violence

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• The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dark, Usual, Sun

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

  Socrates

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

  Douglas Adams

  Strange Places, People, Strange Times

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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• Y’all might as well come on out,” I said. “I know you’re there. I can smell you.” “Smell me? But I just took a shower this morning!” an indignant voice drifted out of the shadows. There was a loud sound, like someone was getting smacked upside the head. Then another voice let out a low mutter. “Shut up, idiot.

  Jennifer Estep

  Morning, Voice, Smell

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “By a Thread”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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• A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Flames, Hatred

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• A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

  Winston Churchill

  Glitter, Reputation, Fame

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Song, Pain

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

  George MacDonald

  Creating, Light, Darkness

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1569, e-artnow

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• Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

  Diane Setterfield

  Past, Long, Might

  Diane Setterfield (2014). “Bellman & Black: A Novel”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a fine line between love and hate, or haven't you heard? Sometimes it's hard to decipher exactly which emotion is strongest." I raised my chin. "I don't love you either." He lowered his head and watched me from underneath his dark lashes. "Are you certain? Because the emotion pouring out of you every time I'm near you is certainly not disinterest." "That doesn't mean it's love." "It could be, I promise you. Take off that sweater and give me ten minutes, and you'll believe beyond a shadow of a doubt you're in love.

  Darynda Jones

  Hate, Believe, Love You

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• Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Moving, Inspiration, Writing

  A Defence of Poetry (written 1821) See Auden 22; Auden 39; Andrew Fletcher 1; Samuel Johnson 22; Twain 104

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