Quotes by Shadow A light here required a shadow there. Virginia Woolf shadowlight I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin. Virginia Woolf shadowskinsfeels A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp. Vivian Stanshall shadowglassesgirl Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth. Vladimir Nabokov shadowimaginationart We think not in words but in shadows of words. Vladimir Nabokov shadowthinking I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane. Vladimir Nabokov windowpaneazureshadow Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls. Virginia Woolf shadowsoulheart There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure. Virginia Woolf sadnessshadowpeople In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. Virginia Woolf embraceshadowlife-is At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins. W. G. Sebald ruinsshadoweye But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain. Walter Dean Myers shadowpainforever To behold the day-break! Walt Whitman shadowlightair Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue. Walter Raleigh imperfectionshadowevil The gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way than through our enemies. Our friends seldom tell us these things; they are our friends precisely because they are able to overlook or ignore this part of us. The enemy is thus not merely a hurdle to be leaped on the way to God. The enemy can be the way to God. We cannot come to terms with our shadow except through our enemies. Walter Wink shadowmayenemy You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there. Wayne Shorter drawersshadowgirl I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe. Whitney Houston long-agoshadowbelieve Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together. Willa Cather individualshadowtogether In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, William Blake shadowimaginationheaven Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire. William Blake degreesshadowdesire The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. William Butler Yeats shadowlightinspirational«5253545556575859606162»
