Shadow Quotes
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
Thomas Wentworth
The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.
Cecilia Bartoli
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose Bierce
When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Austin O'Malley
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Howard Nemerov
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
Charles Wolfe
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Hilaire Belloc
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
David Trimble
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
Sydney Schanberg
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
Guy de Maupassant
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
Patrick Swayze