Best shadow & dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.”

Giving Pain Suffering Dark Shadow Depth Dimensions Within You Providing Masterpiece Strands Tapestry Pain And Suffering

Book:Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land

Source: Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land

“The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.”

“Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.”

Ifs Life Might Happiness Dark Shadow Sunshine Life Happiness Gloomy

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.”

Moments Past Dark Shadow Tragedy Brooding Great Moments

Book:The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

Source: The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

“Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.”

World May Faces Given Grows Dark Hair Shadow Legends Dark Tower Series

Author:Stephen King

“A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east... It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward onto the atmosphere itself... I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I could sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet.”

Ifs Moments Earth Felt Dark Sun Saws Feet Shadow Casts East Atmosphere If I Could Sun Set

Author:James Elkins

“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”

Hands Light Left Dark Darkness Cold Shadow Female Males Snow Warmth Cold War Left Hand Fear Courage Yang Yin And Yang Light Dark

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.”

Left Dark Cities Too Much Land Shadow Sunlight Handful Haste Time Left

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.”

Light Stars Voice Dark Sleep Laughing Shadow Rays Far Away Pale Astrology Sorcery

Book:He, the One who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

Source: He, the One who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts

“We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.”

Courses Stuff Bits Dark White Party Trouble Shadow Tiny Heal Ignorant Tea Primitive White Supremacy Tea Party Supremacy Weird Stuff

Author:Anne Lamott

“We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.”

Want Dark Shadow Living My Life

Author:Jacoby Shaddix

“Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.”

Literature Dark Building Grew Shadow Bridges Masterpiece Lighters Thames

Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

“We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.”

Source: Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house

“Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.”

People May Mean Done Pain Culture Dark Trouble Shadow Workers Urges Fearful Isolated Reluctant Family Friends Co Worker

Author:Susan Wittig Albert

“The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.”

Soul Form Spirit Universe Dark Broken Sorrow Shadow Shattered Untrue External Beauty

Book:Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men

Source: Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men

“We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies... That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.”

Ifs World Needs Mean Done Use Sides Dark Achieve Source Shadow Method Folks Available Objectives Discussion Agency End Times Spend Time Dark Side Intelligence Agencies

Author:Dick Cheney

“Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.”

Thinking Way Two Light Dark Levels Emotional Photography Happenings Shadow Impact Photograph Dramatic Reach Out Composition Light And Dark Framing Light And Shadow

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.”

“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.”

Source: Hard Times (And Other Stories)

“There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“Ill often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.”

Made Hours Dark Couple Shadow Ill Appointments

Author:Thayer David

“How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence--I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.”

Faith Dark Existence Mystery Figures Strange Scene Shadow Profound Explanation Shifting

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”

Ifs Moments Light Earth Dark Existence Shadow Stronger Cheer Contrast Old Friends Transitory

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.”

Humans Long Sometimes Light Energy Leadership Dark Shadow Casts Empowering Intensity Enlightening Elusive Bright Lights Enigmatic

Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

“Religion has been a curse on the world and humanity will never know freedom until this curse has been exorcised. It is the curse of ignorance, which has cast its dark shadow over thousands of years of human suppression.”

Knows World Years Humans Has Beens Religion Humanity Religious Dark Ignorance Shadow Casts Curse Suppression

Author:David Icke

“I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.”

Use Light Dark Shadow Cinema Lighting Cinematography Cameraman

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.”

Source: Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough

“We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.”

Self Reason Energy Sides Dark Deals Shadow Aspect Direct Reason Why Carrie Avoiding Confrontation Dark Side Shadow Self Shadow Side

Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.”

Thinking Knows Way Mean Fun Sides Dark Accepting Healthy Shadow Oneself Having Fun Beast Dark Side Way To Live Hopkins Shadow Side

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.”

Source: That Hideous Strength

“I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.”

Two Dark Moon Shadow Shade Lunatic

Author:Marina Tsvetaeva

“Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.”

Mind Night Dark Shadow Obscure

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that.”

Wells Ends Facts Dark Break Shadow Dimensions Bleeding

Author:Eva Green

“Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that is larger than us, larger than the things we can point to, remember and claim, escorts us from dark into light.”

Heart Sometimes Light Remember Dark Shadow Claims Photograph Ghost Unborn Permanence

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“Godly fear is loving and trusting in Him. As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And "perfect love casteth out all fear." I promise the bright light of godly fear will chase away the dark shadows of mortal fears as we look to the Savior, build upon Him as our foundation, and press forward on His covenant path with consecrated commitment.”

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.”

Men World Looks Light Eye Earth Lasts Hours Dark Darkness Shadow Stronger Sunshine Companion Contrast Solitary Bats Parting Visionaries Owl Blazing

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”

War Sides Term Religious Dark Gone Changed Shadow Lifetime Casts Communism Fundamentalist Framed Fundamentalist Religion

Author:Zachary Lazar

“Alice and I, we'd met before, but we were able to kind of sit and chat on the set of Dark Shadows, and talk about maybe writing some songs together. We started doing that, and then one thing led to another and it became this Vampire project - because he was telling stories about all those days, which were fascinating.”

Writing Kind Stories Able Together Song Dark One Thing Mets Projects Shadow Vampire Fascinating Telling Stories

Author:Johnny Depp

“I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Years Mean Stills Feelings Today Felt Dark Creating Shadow Vehicle Existential Overwhelmed Contradictory Angst Existential Angst Creating Music

Author:Annie Lennox

“Whoever has become a servant of the Lord fears only his Master. But whoever is without the fear of God is often afraid of his own shadow. Fearfulness is the daughter of unbelief. A proud soul is the slave of fear; hoping in itself, in comes to such a state that it is startled by a small noise, and is afraid of the dark.”

Inspirational Soul States Christian Religious Dark Lord Masters Proud Daughter Shadow Slave Noise Servant Orthodox Unbelief

Author:John Climacus

“Faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the Libyan people, the United States and our friends and allies stopped Gadhafi's forces in their tracks. A coalition that included the United States, NATO and Arab nations persevered to protect Libyan civilians. So this is a momentous day in the history of Libya. The dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted, and with this enormous promise the Libyan people now have a great responsibility: to build an inclusive and tolerant and democratic Libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to Gadhafi's dictatorship.”

People Helping Dark Responsibility Promise Protect Shadow Ultimate Democratic Track Tyranny Dictatorship Nato Great Responsibility

Author:Barack Obama

“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

“You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.”

Said Stills Dark Secret Silence Fire Shadow Servant Flames Lord Of The Ring Orcs

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.”

Book Sound Voice Dark Behinds Doors Strange Wall Shadow Worn Headings Spine Dark Places Deep Dark

Book:The Club Dumas

Source: The Club Dumas

“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”

“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.”

Done Remember Lying Left Dark Regret Proud Shadow Shame Tables Guilt Credit Storm Naked Dust Justify Thick Corpses Undone Forgetfulness Prosecutor Jackals Anubis

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

Love Soul Poetry Certain Dark Secret Love You Shadow Pregnancy Sonnet I Hate You Dark Things

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.”

Littles Light Inspiration Dark Gone Shadow Shining Deeds Pushing Good Deeds

Author:Charles de Lint

“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.”

Play Light Bits Dark Shadow

Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

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