Shadow Quotes

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

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

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.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

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

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.