Best shadow & body Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.”

Ifs Soul Matter Philosophy Use Body Light Eye Spiritual Sleep Study Shadow Vices Communicate Intellect Substance Contemplation Rays Spiritual Life Devoted Awakened Angelic

Book:The Book of the Courtier

Source: The Book of the Courtier

“Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.”

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“The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.”

Body Causes Imagination Effects Shadow Opaque

Book:Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

“The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.”

Body Light Night Shadow

Author:Aristotle

“It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.”

Source: To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft

“I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.”

Soul Body Light Earth Knowing Love You Flower Kissing Shadow Eternity Plant Hunger Carrie Fragrance Dense Because Of You Rioting Earth Life

Author:Pablo Neruda

“We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.”

Matter Whole Facts Body Happens Objects Materials Shadow Areas Structure Casts Cease Organized Affected Phenomenon Cycling Sustaining Hyper Degrading Entropy Metabolism

Author:Terence McKenna

“There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.”

Body Light Truth Truth Is Shadow Errors Definitions Supreme Description Falsehood Sublime Plato Contradictory Supreme Being Plato S

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

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

“Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.”

Mind Body Doubt Shadow Drag

Author:Victor Hugo

“What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.”

Ifs I Can Two Character Body Reality Evil My Own Shadow Profound Casts Deny Comic Comic Strips

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow.”

Ifs Children Stills Body Light Adults Shadow Bounds Permanence

Book:The Shadow Thieves

Source: The Shadow Thieves

“A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.”

Ifs Way Mean Body Film Artist Shadow Paint Makeup Get Real Faux Makeup Artist

Author:Jennifer Tilly

“A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.”

Body Shadow Deeper Brilliant Proportion Luminous

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.”

I Can Body Lasts Lines My Own Existence Sun Fronts Arms Shadow Stones Wings Warm Staring Rays Far Away Locks Spinning

Author:Dean Potter

“We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.”

“somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”

Men Body Moving Sun Shapes Bird Shadow Desert Sand Lions Blank Thighs Indignant

Book:A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.”

Firsts Sometimes Body Glory Shadow Vain Length Exceed

Book:Essays [tr. by Cotton

Source: Essays [tr. by Cotton

“The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.”

“You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.”

Should Dream Body Imagination Reflection Shadow Casts Your Body Advaita Spiritual Awakening

Author:Adi Shankara

“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.”

Doe Soul Body Night Sleep Morning Shadow Possession Insomnia Repose Phantoms Sleeping In Inns Sleepiness Sleeping At Night Not Sleeping Lack Of Sleep Rest And Sleep

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.”

World Heart May Body Moving Universe Force Elements Shadow Direct Universal Driven Gravity Reverse Fragments Subtlety Nature Love Convergence

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“I come from a boxing background. Three generations of boxers. I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing. Mind, body. So for me, shadow boxing or hitting the heavy bag is something that gets me in a centered state. It's calming for me. To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.”

Mind Persons States Body Hate Fighting Three Struggle Generations Shadow Heavy Backgrounds Boxing Bags Hitting Boxers Calming Mind Body Three Generations Inner Struggle

Author:Aleks Paunovic

“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.”

Philosophy Body Past Shadow Screens Fantastic Compare Silhouettes

Book:The Secret Doctrine

Source: The Secret Doctrine

“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.”

World Body Pain Lasts Night Fall Stars Wall Shadow Blind Finals Indifference Scare Barrels Rifles Unfeeling

Author:Roger Waters

“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”

Body Shadow Wings Rose Petals Moths Rose Petals

Author:Stephen King

“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.”

Body Animal Shadow

Book:Francis Bacon

Source: Francis Bacon

“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.”

Knows Heart Soul Done Dream Body Form Spirit Vision Generations Fields Shadow Deeds Disappear Great Things Wraps Bosoms Pondering Deathless

Book:Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences

Source: Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences

“Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.”

Thinking Matter Facts Body Earth Spiritual Water Sun Too Much Air Shadow Substance Life And Death Thick Mistaken Observing Oysters Epic Poems

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]”

Mind Body Earth Sky Shadow Bounds Epitaph Kepler

Author:Johannes Kepler

“For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.”

Humans Body Light Born Shadow Incapable Explaining Opaque

Author:Jose Saramago

“I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.”

“When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?”

“The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.”

People Years Body Bigs Left Shadow

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name.”

Heart Self States Body Today Names Stars Imagine Shadow Tongue Tiny Shoulders Sensations Eastern Chill Crossings Noon Bananas Enchanted Strawberries Enchanted Places

Book:Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looking at me with eyes gone soft and dark. "Christ, Claire, ye were so beautiful, there on the stair, wi' your hair down and the shadow of your body with the light behind ye…." He shook his head slowly. "I did think I should die, if I didna have ye," he said softly. "Just then.”

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“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”

Ifs Men World Enough Whole Body Shadow Defeat Tiny Whole World Giants Ugliness Moonlight Amoeba

Author:Yukio Mishima

“Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.”

Done Dream Body Strong Waiting Black Watches Shadow Stones Wings Ravens

Book:Hunted: A House of Night Novel

Source: Hunted: A House of Night Novel

“Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body like a tool meant to be used up, discarded, and replaced. Better every life you touch. We will reach the final chapter. When we have eyes that can stare into the sun, eyes that only squint for the Shenikah, then we will see laughing children pulling cobras by their tails, and hawks and rabbits playing tag.”