Quotes by category:Shadow

I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.

going-away shadow dream

He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow. by Elizabeth Gilbert

He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

Elizabeth Gilbert

died shadow powerful

Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows

toes lines shadow

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the si... by Elvis Costello

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

selfishness shadow kissing

I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?

shadow trying needs

I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

Emily M. Danforth

shadow tree world

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - T... by Elton John

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One

block shadow stars

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

shadow tree two

PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn by Emily Dickinson

PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn

Emily Dickinson

shadow darkness long

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow f... by Emma Goldman

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

morrow shadow parent

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Eric Temple Bell

shadow imagination mind

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

shadow ghost sides

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by... by Erin Hunter

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

deception pages shadow

That man has no shadow. by Erin Morgenstern

That man has no shadow.

Erin Morgenstern

shadow men

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.

shadow awareness bridges

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

shadow bridges dark

I'm tired of living in the shadows of what my society and even th... by Esra'a Al-Shafei

I'm tired of living in the shadows of what my society and even the world expects of me.

Esra'a Al-Shafei

tired shadow world

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are ov... by Eva Ibbotson

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

peaceful shadow mind

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. by Evita Peron

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

shadow mirrors sun

Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that.

bleeding shadow dark