Most people think that shadows follow precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words ideas desires deeds impulses and memories.
There are dark shadows on the earth but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
In this world full often our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
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.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Love is a trap. When it appears we see only its light not its shadows.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life the children those who are in the twilight of life the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life the sick the needy and the handicapped.
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.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Life itself is but the shadow of death and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Not the torturer will scare me nor the body's final fall nor the barrels of death's rifles nor the shadows on the wall nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless unfeeling world.
Like many of you I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows ' which I followed avidly as a kid.
It feels quite cool in a mad way to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows the light and darkness which that thing provides.
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows the light and dark which that thing provides.
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
The light of lights looks always on the motive not the deed the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
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.