Shadow Quotes

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

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.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

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

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.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

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

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

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

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.