Shadow Quotes - Page 26

• After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Caves, Century, Stills

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.167, Vintage

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• Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dream, Past, Dust

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• I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

  Juan Gris

  White, Black, Paper

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• I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.

  Charlotte Church

  Thinking, Restaurants, Hotel

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• Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up.

  Daphne Merkin

  Cheer, Suffering, World

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• I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Poodles, Littles, Monkeys

  "Vanessa Hudgens: Hey Look! She's All Grown Up". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2010.

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• I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, America, Looks

  "A long walk to freedom" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

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• Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

  Roger Waters

  Stars, Wall, Pain

  Song: Each Small Candle

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• She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.

  Henry James

  Sweet, Eye, Thinking

  "Portrait of a Lady".

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Sound, Rooms, Poverty

  Ray Bradbury (1971). “The golden apples of the sun”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

  Henry Miller

  Passing Away, Anomalies, Earth

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• What has no shadow has no strength to live.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Faith”

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• A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Daughter, Kings

  William Butler Yeats (1814). “The Land of Heart's Desire”, p.12

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• Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler, 'have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,' he shuddered, 'a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry pie?' No,' Charles admitted. There y'go,' said Tummeler. It's cause they can't stand the goodness in it.' Can't argue with you there,' said Charles. Foods is good and evil, just like people, or badgers, or even scowlers.' Evil food?' said Charles. Parsnips,' said Tummeler, 'Them's as evil as they come.

  James A. Owen

  Simple, Pie, People

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• I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Smell, Feet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.289, Scholastic Inc.

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• Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Wall, Pain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.283

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• But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

  Pascal Mercier

  Soul, Stories, Facts

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.294, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Years, Vision

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.141

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• Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Sadness, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.549, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Memories, Past, Light

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.113, Penguin

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• The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Love Is, Perception, World

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye to eat it, but it melted like a shadow in her hand. The yellow skull was melting too, and the kindliest old man that she had ever seen was smiling down on her. "No one has ever tried to eat my worm before," he said. "Are you hungry, child?" Yes, she thought, but not for food.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Eye, Men

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• Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Light, Fading, Nightfall

  Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.

  Anne Perry

  Beautiful, Sea, Mountain

  Anne Perry (2010). “A Breach of Promise: A William Monk Novel”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Sunshine, Darkness

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

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