Quotes by Shadow Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows. George Mackay Brown old-wisdom shadow gathering Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. George Eliot shadow dying long Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. George P. Shultz negotiation shadow tables The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. George R. R. Martin deep-thought flames shadow It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type. George Michael shadow easy men Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow. Gautama Buddha foam shadow body For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now. George MacDonald shadow animal lying The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. George Steiner shadow light men The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope. George Stillman Hillard golden shadow hope Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. Georges Duhamel shadow suffering sleep I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds a little shallow, but if I imagine the shadow life, where I didn't get that chance, and all the ways my negative inclinations would have bloomed if I hadn't gotten the attention, but also the creative outlet ... I'm not actually that happy. I have multiplicities. My happiness blooms and it wilts. George Saunders shadow creative sound When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow? George Steiner rainbow shadow would-be Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. George MacDonald shadow ambition evil There are things that are shadow sides of the creative energy that are negative and all that kind of stuff. The only thing that I say to myself is, in the spirit of that quote from the Gnostic Gospels: Writing is a way to let all that stuff out into the sun. George Saunders shadow creative writing There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun. Gerd de Ley shadow three men Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing. George MacDonald affliction shadow wings I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. George Eliot shadow sin peace The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering. Gilles Deleuze shadow body animal 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. Ginny Brown-Waite shadow rights world There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world. Giorgio de Chirico shadow men world «1314151617181920212223»
