Shadow Quotes - Page 5

• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

  Tim Burton

  Dream, Moon, Night

  "The Nightmare Before Christmas". www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

  Amy Grant

  Real, Color, Black

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• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

  Charles Dickens

  Strength, Encouraging, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.648, Pan Macmillan

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• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Virtue, Glory

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 45), translated, 45 BC.

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• Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it

  Shakti Gawain

  Real, Ignorance, Fighting

  Shakti Gawain (2016). “Creative Visualization - 40th Anniversary Edition: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life”, p.45, New World Library

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• The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.

  A. Meredith Walters

  Light, Darkness, Needs

  A. Meredith Walters (2014). “Light in the Shadows”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
  of your love, that somehow contains
  the entire universe.

  Rumi

  Life, Beauty, Body

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.44, Penguin UK

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• Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Perspective, Different

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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  Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday

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• Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it

  Carl Jung

  Men, Personality, Doubt

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• The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

  Brené Brown

  Dark, Light, Joy

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• Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Peaceful, Mind, Treasure

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Disappointment, Hands, Darkness

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Best Friend, Friendship, Jesus

  "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct".

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• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  C. Wright Mills

  Power, Prestige, Money And Power

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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• Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Art, People

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

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• I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

  Sylvia Plath

  Negative, Melting, Persons

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Time, Lying

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Now the last red ray is gone;
  Now the twilight shadows hie.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Twilight, Rays, Gone

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• We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

  Maggie Smith

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

  Robin Sharma

  Shining, Sun, Sun Shines

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• When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

  Helen Keller

  Faces, Sun, Your Face

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• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Balance, World

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