Shadow Quotes - Page 21

• A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Differences, Attractive, Figures

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.2038, Delphi Classics

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• Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Heart, Elements

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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• In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

  Rumi

  Passion, Kissing, Garden

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Agony And Ecstasy”

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• There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.

  Deepak Chopra

  Light, Heaven, Division

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Life After Death: The Book of Answers”, p.142, Random House

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• When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment.

  Surya Das

  Dream, Spiritual, Twilight

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• We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Belief, Sunlight

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• Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artist, Touching, Veils

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• What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.

  James Lileks

  Butterfly, Simple, Rhinos

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• My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

  Curtis Jackson

  Wall, Past, Choices

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 6, 2005.

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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 universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Order, Strange Places

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

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• What happened to that man I was seven autumns ago? What happened to that country? Time heals, yes - and thank God the pain and terror of that time has abated, at least for most of us. In that sense time is a mercy. But time also obscures the life-giving truths we perceive in the light of the shadow of death. In that way, time is a curse.

  Rod Dreher

  Country, Pain, Autumn

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Energy, Our Love, Hatred And Jealousy

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• If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.

  Patrick Stewart

  Believe, Unique, Knowing

  "A Candid Conversation with Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart". Interview with David Gordon, www.theatermania.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

  John Hagelin

  Ignorance, Light, Darkness

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or vision that might imagine a different sort of society from the dysfunctional, militarizing, and deeply unequal social order that marked the current historical period.

  Henry Giroux

  Order, Historical, Vision

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

  Joseph Boyden

  Dream, Reality, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.

  Rachel Holmes

  Father, Book, Assessment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.

  Zachary Lazar

  Religious, War, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.

  Norman Lock

  Country, Intelligent, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.

  Chris Abani

  Fire, Self, Two

  Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• 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.

  Chris Abani

  Encounters, Ordinary, Realizing

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same manager, Albert Grossman, who also managed Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. Dylan and I respected what each other did, but I just decided not to do it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Roaring, Albums

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• I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room

  James Vance

  Lonely, Men, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We live on planet earth, we have the sun, and it's the most beautiful thing, the way the sun dances and the way shadows are cast.

  Kesh

  Beautiful, Earth, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So basically, it just really represents our band and we didn't even think about that when we decided to call it 'Warpaint'. And then through getting asked questions about "why is that song called 'Warpaint'?" - then we realised, "oh my god! THAT'S why!" And we didn't even know why... but that's why! And then 'Shadows' is just... I love that song and it's personal to me. I love how it turned out!!

  Theresa Wayman

  Song, Thinking, Band

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