Best shadow & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad

“Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.”

Made Two Ends Sun Shadow Sticks Height Rays Pyramids Triangles

Author:Thales

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.”

Ends Lying Night Fool Shadow Mark Delight

Book:The Verse of Hilaire Belloc

Source: The Verse of Hilaire Belloc

“To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.”

Stills Ends Depends Shadow Empty Copies Cheated Morrow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

“I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.”

Love Mind Heart May Ends Done Hands Belief Alive Mines Shadow Settling Pale Console Lingering

Book:The Personal History of David Copperfield

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield

“A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.”

Knows Children Ends Exercise Sitting Shadow Receiving Didactic

Author:Tim Crouch

“[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.”

Ends Guy Waiting Steps Shadow Brando Worth The Wait

Author:Roger Ebert

“Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.”

Should Trying Wells Looks Ends States Light Goal United United States Acceptance Shadow Areas Negative Aspect Backgrounds Negativity Suppressing Disowning

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“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

“The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.”

Thinking Book Ends Light Seems Life Is Novel Wonderful Shadow Garden Notes Finals Conclusion Pessimism Closing Hearted Light Hearted Life Is Wonderful

Author:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.”

Way Wells Two Book Ends Next Love Is Novel Focus Angel Shadow Coming Out The Next One Amber

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, underpaid tomato pickers, the gulf oil spill. It's all woven together in a sensuous, oblique way that's not the same as the single-message kind of documentary we're used to, with an "answer" at the end. It's more like an exploration. Sort of like what you do with Birth of a Nation.”

“In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to the ends of the earth. And I live frequently on the spine of the continent, near the Great Divide. Then there's the side of it being the real energy center for a truly post-postmodernist poetry mind, which is also archaic, because we can still be close to the land.”

Ifs Way Mind Stills Real Ends Matter Earth America Energy Sides Land Shadow Posts Divides Continents Spine

Author:Anne Waldman

“A people always ends by resembling its shadow.”

People Ends Shadow

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“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

“Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc”

Ends Challenges Practice Masters Shadow Harder Substance Cleverness

Author:Bryce Courtenay

“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

Ends Light Hope Clear Cold Shadow Passing Passings Dark Tower Return Of The King Peeping Samwise

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.”

“To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?”

Ends Behinds Gone Wind Mountain Shadow Rain Horse West Hills Towers Horns Riders Meadows Two Towers

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.”

Ends Done Lying Strong Stars Darkness Sun Journey Mountain Shadow Buried Towers Farewell Steep Sun And Stars Finches

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.”

People Ifs Long Important Ideas Ends Running Secret Shadow Wake Up Who You Are Core No Idea Hiding Waking Sooner Or Later

Book:One of Us

Source: One of Us

“Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end." And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes.”

Said Ends Eye Lying Jesus Heard Keys Lows Understood Shadow Lips His Eyes Twisted Embers Low Key

Author:Neil Gaiman

“AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? But that isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?”

Real Soul Ends Facts Stories Differences Clear Truth Is Authority Shadow Concern Oneself About Yourself Deceptive Real Questions True And False

Author:Pascal Mercier

“I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn't the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness.”

Looks Real Ends Light Found Tree Horror Bed Shadow Cat Empty Fats Sat Meaningless Blackness Rorschach

Author:Alan Moore

“Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.”

Thinking Long Two Ends Would Be Eye Half Team Shapes Moon Creatures Limits Shadow Died Size Edges Boundaries Gentle Borders Horizon Troll Blurry Long Shadows Half Moon Patrolling

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.”

World Long Ends Lying Hate Arms Shadow Pursue My Thoughts End Of The World Stretching Cursed Offspring

Book:Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth

Source: Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth

“In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back the Spring... He is the best of all possible audiences, the only Audience to see every scene, the Author who became a Character and heaped every shadow on Himself. The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood.”

Knows Ends Character Stories Moving Night Morning Audience Sun Blood Scene Spring Shadow Bigger Winter Dawn Greek Related Every Night Hereafter Dank

Author:N.D. Wilson

“But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?”

Soul Ends Facts Stories Shadow Deceptive

Book:Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel

Source: Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel

“He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.”

Ends Self Lost Felt Hours Animal Path Return Thousand Shadow Rain Stones Inevitable Sunshine Cycles Torment Moonlight Siddhartha

Author:Hermann Hesse

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”

“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”

Ends Stories Wind Shadow Cemetery True Story Shadow Of The Wind

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.”

Knows Years Ends Together Grows Waiting Journey Draws Shadow March Loved Ones Serene Unafraid My Journey

Author:Tess Gerritsen

“How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")”

Long Has Beens Ends Seems Might Past Fire Shadow Seasons Weather Burned Long Ago Seagull Without A Trace

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“But the world moves on, even when you don’t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops. That’s harsh and magical and somewhat comforting because nothing is immutable, however much we want it to be. Moments cannot be caught like fossils in amber, ever- perfect,ever-beautiful. They go dark and raw, full of shadows, leaving you with the memories. And the world moves on.”

World Want Feels Ends Moments Beautiful Moving Memories Dark Perfect Shadow Leaving Caught Harsh Fossils Comforting Amber

Author:Ann Aguirre

“I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.”

“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”

World Way Long Ideas Ends Reality Life Is Desire Fall Emotion Existence Creation Shadow Essence Response Kingdoms Conception Bangs Descent Potency Hollow Man

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.”

World Trying Years Long Ends Able Faces Parent Fate Shadow Concern Calm Missions Tranquility Chasing Orphan

Book:When We Were Orphans

Source: When We Were Orphans

“Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.”

Heart Long Ends Moments Strong Born Forever Findings Shadow Bounds Beast Hopeless Long Ago Knots

Book:The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“On calm days, you always think you've conquered them. You think that in the end you've finally done them in. That you've got rid of them for good, now and forever. But that seldom happens. Most of the time, the demons are still there, lurking somewhere in the shadows. Tirelessly waiting for the moment when our guard drops. And when love goes away.”

Thinking Stills Ends Done Moments Happens Waiting Forever Shadow Calm Demon Lurking

Author:Guillaume Musso

“But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.”

Made Ends Light Given Shadow Empty Shining Lamps

Book:Molloy

Source: Molloy

“It was dark in the alcove, so dark that Jace was only an outline of shadows and gold. His body pinned Clary's to the wall. His hands slid down along her body and reached the end of her dress, drawing it up along her legs. "What are you doing?" She whispered. "Jace?" He looked at her. The peculiar light in the club turned his eyes an array of fractured colors. His smile was wicked. "You can tell me to stop whenever you want," he said. "But you won't.”

Want Said Ends Body Hands Light Eye Dark Color Wall Shadow Gold Dresses Clubs Legs Drawing His Eyes Wicked Peculiar Jace Outlines His Smile

Book:City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.”

Ifs Feels Ends Seems Seeing Shadow Fallen Dull The End Of The Day Disappointed

Author:Dorothy Koomson

“Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.”

May Ends Sometimes Liberty Power Gun Shadow Civil Rights

Book:The selected writings of Jean Genet

Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet

“In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways.”

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