- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shadows Quotes
On the unpolished, the hidden, and what lingers just out of sight.
Several lines recall an imperfect but sincere old television show, valued more for its characters than its polish. Read more in our Mystery quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
- Declined
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its love songs are gender-neutral, the members have declined to appear in their own videos, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a photo of the duo that doesn't cast them in shadows.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child can escape the shadows.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.
- Lights
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- Nov 07, 2020