Shadow Quotes

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.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

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

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

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.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

There is a shadow on every page.

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.