shadow quotes

• Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. (Ambrose Bierce) [truth/shadow]
• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. (William Blake) [imagination/universe/shadow]
• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln) [character/reputation/shadow/shadow]
• A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress. (Henry Fielding) [shadow/mind/lady]
• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. (Joseph Addison) [think/life/shadow]
• To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. (Jean Baudrillard) [love/trace/shadow/future]
• Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. (Andre Breton) [wife/shadow/life/future]
• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. (Marcus Cicero) [virtue/shadow]
• An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [shadow]
• A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress. (Henry Fielding) [shadow/mind/lady]
• I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. (Mahatma Gandhi) [ability/shadow/faith]
• Shadow owes its birth to light. (John Gay) [shadow/light]
• Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [light/shadow]
• The myths have always condemned those who looked back. Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. (Dag Hammarskjold) [shadow/decision]
• No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [shadow/land]
• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. (Helen Keller) [face/shadow]
• A people always ends by resembling its shadow. (Rudyard Kipling) [people/shadow]
• Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln) [character/reputation/shadow/shadow]
• The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln) [shadow/think/thing]
• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [art/shadow]
• When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. (Thomas Paine) [men/thinking/shadow]
• A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. (William Shakespeare) [shadow/stage/more]
• The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. (William Shakespeare) [shadow]
• The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. ( Socrates) [light/shadow]
• Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments. (Henry David Thoreau) [government/shadow]
• The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [present/shadow/]
• It's hard for them (partners) to live in my shadow, knowing that they will never make the money I do. (Jennifer Lopez) [shadow/willpower/money]
• I don't think that there is any longer a dark shadow cast over actors who work in television, so I would readily go back. (Benjamin Bratt) [think/shadow/actors/television]
• Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous! (Ryan Phillippe) [shadow/money]
• Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult. (Peter Fonda) [shadow]
• I was rebellious, fighting the waves. I lived in the shadow of this great legend and yet everybody was telling me to be my own man. (Peter Fonda) [shadow]

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