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“I study Carl Jung, who talks a lot about the shadow side, the repressed side. I think the scariest thing in the world is repression. There's plenty to be idealistic about, but we have to be aware of all sides of ourselves, and there are definitely shadows in all of us.”

Thinking World Study Shadow Plenty

Author:Laura Dern

“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”

Thinking Life Facts Suffering Literature Speak Grief Sadness Reflection Shadow Misery Endless Each Day Misers Live Each Day Grief Observed Keeping A Journal

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit

“I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.”

People Thinking Looks Sound Hours Sun Shadow Gold Wake Up Coffee Lovely Golden Evening Awake Yellow Pints Golden Hour

Author:Stacy London

“What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.”

Love Life Littles Enough Stories Dream Life Is Illusion Shadow Madness What Is Life Life Is A Dream

Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.”

People Knows Giving Promise Shadow Scripture Gods Will Valleys No Fear Greatest Gifts Have No Fear Shadow Of Death

Author:Max Lucado

“I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.”

Pain Past Adults Shadow Bounds Thread My Past

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.”

Mother Shadow Ghost Tabloids

Author:Lorna Luft

“Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.”

God Christian Shadow Wings Trials Affliction

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”

“I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”

Men Light Lost Black White Destiny Style Shadow Drawing Endless Backgrounds Thread Shed Anguish Ink Labyrinth Gleam Pantomime

Author:Marcel Marceau

“What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?”

Perfect Gone Kings Shadow Sunshine Happy Sunshine

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.”

Light Enjoy Space White Shadow Boxes Furniture Small Spaces

Author:Kevin McCloud

“I am about as detailed as a shadow.”

Book:Cruddy: A Novel

Source: Cruddy: A Novel

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

“The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.”

World Play Shadow Vanity One Word

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”

Mind Pain Literature Grief Behinds Beauty Loneliness Shadow Lonely Fleeting Being Alone Visitors Feeling Lonely Souvenirs

Author:Christopher Morley

“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.”

World Love Light Stars Black Shadow Circles Broken Heart Drag Love Someone Wipe Wiping Out

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.”

Has Beens Ends Stories Would Be Products Shadow Mere Shooting Disappointing

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.”

Looks Different Sometimes Eye Imagine Tree Color Ready Scene Shadow Window Paint

Author:Grandma Moses

“I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.”

Use Shadow Heavy Boxing Bags

Author:Liam Neeson

“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.”

Light Science Universe Journey Travel Shadow Speed Funny Travel Forgetful Speed Of Light

Book:The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

Source: The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”

Love Inspirational Feelings Shadow Feeling Lost German Philosopher Natural Feelings Old Feelings

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?”

Problem Earth Fiction Seeing Minutes Travel Shadow Science Fiction Time Travel Mars Funny Travel

Author:Bill Nye

“I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.”

Believe Light Shadow Infinite Vehicle Transport

Author:Martha Beck

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Life Dream Reality Hope Greater Shadow Vain

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

Thinking Men Pain Lasts Freedom Liberty Shadow Privilege Quitting Patriotic Yield Horizon New Horizons

Book:The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine

Source: The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”

Want Life Believe Enough Light Christian Faith Belief Doubt Shadow Blind Have Faith Unseen Blind Faith Light And Shadow Faith And Doubt Light Of Christ Spiritual Faith

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

Author:Plutarch

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.”

Light Stars Self Esteem Self Love Shadow All Things Clouds Self Worth Reverence Thyself Anorexia Eating Disorder Light And Shadow Above The Clouds

Author:Pythagoras

“Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.”

Eye Hell Shadow Casts Covering Gloomy Vapor

Author:Jean Racine

“When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.”

Thinking Kind Successful Taken Shadow Fairs My Family Thrown Caution Cautious

Author:Robert Redford

“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.”

Age Passion Morning Middle Youth Periods Shadow Aging Disappear Evening Young Age Middle Ages Good Morning Infirmity Age Of 40 40th Birthday

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.”

Light Beauty Shadow Cease Enjoyed Deprived Foils Health Beauty

Book:Modern Painters (Complete)

Source: Modern Painters (Complete)

“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”

Nature My Own Healing Tree Shadow Bounds Woods Forests Heat Vines Plant A Tree Orchard Forests And Trees Fruit Trees Tree Planting Plants And Trees Woods And Forests

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

Writing Poetry Literature Shadow Asking Dance Poetry Is Poetic Echoes Just Dance Inspirational Dance Short Dance Great Poetry

Author:Carl Sandburg

“A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.”

Giving Stories Shadow Philosophical Casts Myth Substance

Book:Esoteric Christianity

Source: Esoteric Christianity

“Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.”

Ifs Shadow Tables Casts Negotiation Bargaining Euphemism Capitulation

Author:George P. Shultz

“Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.”

Dark Doors Shadow Adversity Miles Lakes Shore Scottish Cottages Miles Away

Author:Walter Scott

“Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.”

World Space Doubt Shadow Squares Crap Urban

Author:Will Self

“The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.”

Way Seems Past Quality Land Events Source Anxiety Shadow Stations Outstanding Reliable Sources

Author:Will Self

“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.”

Men Light Science Space Known Middle Shadow Dimensions Infinity Twilight Superstitions Timeless Fifth Middle Ground Light And Shadow Twilight Zone

Author:Rod Serling

“Life's 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.”

“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.”

Literature Half Doubt Truth Is Shadow Doubted

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

Inspirational Dream Ambition Shadow Substance Ambitious My Ambition Infinite Space Ambitious Man Ambitious Person Ambitions And Dreams

Book:Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”

Inspirational Motivation Hope Behinds Sun Journey Angel Shadow Casts Burden Never Lose Hope Losing Hope Hope Inspirational Hopes Up Wishes And Hopes

Book:Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.”

Love Quality Virtue Creatures Respect Shadow Fellows Manners Display Momentary Love And Respect

Author:Sydney Smith

“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.”

Littles I Can Use Shadow

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.”

Long Dream Light Healthy Shadow Cancer Healthy Life Keep Dreaming

Author:Patrick Swayze

“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”

World Writing Real Artist Universe Imagination Eternal Shadow Thought Provoking Vegetables My Imagination Faint Hearted

Book:The Selected Poems of William Blake

Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake