Shadows Quotes

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

A child can escape the shadows.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

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

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.