- Grasping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shadow Quotes
Most Famous Shadow Quotes of All Time!
These lines use shadow as a place of comfort and reflection, like the healing shade found deep among planted orchards, or the quiet image of an aging father resting beneath a tree he grew himself. Others lean into shadow as something eerily left behind or far away. Discover more in Light quotes.
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- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
- My Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
- Nov 07, 2020
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the past, I guess, three years or so when I joined Bullet Club and as a member of The Elite, I was honestly kind of in the shadow of all of my friends.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
- Nov 07, 2020
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Oneself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair's shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist's luck.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use the 'Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow' Palette every day. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the 'Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow' Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don't use anything else but 'Urban Decay Perversion' Mascara.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
From peaceful woodland shade to a shadow glimpsed near a distant lake cottage, this collection treats shadow as both comfort and mystery. Continue with Good and Life quotes for more reflective lines.