Best shadow & fall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.”

Thinking Long Fall Black Shadow Casts Temperature Unforgiving Chilly

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.”

Night Fall Hours Shadow

Author:Bryan Procter

“There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.”

Moments Facts Fall Shadow Celebrate

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.”

Way Fall Half Streets Building Revolution Industry Shadow Rivers Towns Noise Bridges Squares Crossings Civics Systematic Steep Bewildered Marshes Bluffs Confluence Refinery

Book:The Shadow of Innsmouth

Source: The Shadow of Innsmouth

“To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.”

Humans Life Is Fall Black One Thing Shadow Police Reports Depravity

Book:Septimus

Source: Septimus

“We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.”

Light Past Form Fall Vision Shadow Experience Vary

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.”

Thinking Play Use Light Seems Fall Shadow Surface Shade Stains Light And Shadow

Author:John French Sloan

“As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.”

Reality Seems Age Fall Grows Loses Path Shadow Drawing Senses Old Age Reality Of Life Crude Poignancy

Book:Stories and Legends

Source: Stories and Legends

“I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.”

Way Matter Light Faces Form Fall Subjects Shadow Landscape Subject Matter Light And Shadow

Author:Paul Emsley

“The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.”

Long Song Fall Missing Masters Summer Shadow Sunset Weary August Cattle

Book:Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems

Source: Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems

“What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!”

Men World Turns Fall Gratitude Shadow Woods Debt Noble Forests Admiration Utility Turmoil Glitter Debt Of Gratitude

Book:Rural Hours

Source: Rural Hours

“If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and its inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within. Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated.”

Ifs World Book Sometimes Stories Fall Lost Journey Ought Creatures Shadow Importance Towns Impact Landscape Description Quests Interiors Confusing Walkers Underestimated Specificity

Author:Ian Sansom

“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)

“It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.”

“A big part of filmmaking, and a big part of the power of filmmaking, is creating characters that people fall in love with. So, those things, like the bloopers, create more reality and dimension, and the sense that these are not drawings or shadows, but they are living, breathing, thinking characters. That's the illusion.”

People Thinking Character Bigs Reality Fall Creating Illusion Shadow Falling In Love Drawing Breathing Dimensions Filmmaking Bloopers Creating Characters

Author:Rob Minkoff

“Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.”

Thinking Real Feelings Fall Shadow Israel Germany Free Thinking

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“Night is falling. The gods have left us for those who please them better. Our time in the world is passed, and we are as wasted as the wind against the mountains. Shadows are falling, the gods have left us.”

World Night Fall Left Wind Please Mountain Shadow Our Time Apocalypse

Author:Jim Grimsley

“If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.”

Ifs World Light Turns Fall Felt Pleasure Sun Streets Greatness Shadow Falling In Love Lightning Impressed Thunder Majesty Fireworks Short Lived Thunder And Lightning Street Lights

Author:John Piper

“I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.”

“The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.”

People Humans Country Matter Fall Individual Awareness Weapons Conscience Shadow Victim Threat Nuclear Permit Crucial Nuclear Weapons Refusal

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.”

Heart Home Fall Sun My Heart Shadow Surround Slips Sweetness Fountain Foreheads Spills

Author:Rumi

“The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.”

Fall Doubt Happened Wall Shadow Unions Soviet Soviet Union Berlin Berlin Wall

Author:Milton Friedman

“Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.”

Feels Stills Soul Running Fall Sleep Sun Shadow Hot Heal My Soul Scar Running Away Steel Time To Sleep

Author:Bob Dylan

“Half of the devices that we encounter in terrorism cases, in counterintelligence cases, in gang cases, in child pornography cases, cannot be opened with any technique. That is a big problem. And so the shadow continues to fall.”

Children Problem Fall Shadow Terrorism Pornography Gang

Author:James Comey

“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

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

Source: Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”

“And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with someone, without reservation or holding back, was good for the heart. For its valves and its arteries and that invisible shadow of the heart clled the soul. Falling in love was good for the soul.”

Heart Soul Fall Reading Novel Understood Shadow Program Falling In Love Radio Hearing Invisible Reservations Arteries Holding Back Valve

Author:Paulette Jiles

“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow”

Ideas Reality Fall Shadow Criminal Mind Hollow Man

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise”

“In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.”

Knows Men Stills Light Young Night Fall Universe Stars Morning Path One Day Shadow East Dawn Elsewhere

Book:Against the Fall of Night

Source: Against the Fall of Night

“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”

Way Said Fall Dark Rooms Shadow Aspect Window Cameras Tiny Painter Association Sunlight Projection Upside Down Jung Dark Room Shadow Work Camera Obscura

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.”

Made Fall Crazy Eating Shadow Meals Bombs Atoms Going To Work Bulbs Atom Bomb

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion." Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”

“For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me... All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. And because I moved so secretly now my daughter does not see me... We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing; unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”

Years Long Doe Running Desire Fall Lost Seeing Quiet Mouths Daughter Shadow Moved Hearing Selfish My Daughter Unseen True Nature Unheard Catch Me Selfish Desire

Author:Amy Tan

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”

May Age Turns Fall Shadow Wheels Wheel Of Time

Book:The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'

“So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.”

Ifs Hands Light Moving Faith Fall Fear Realizing Sadness Fronts Anxiety Happenings Shadow Forgotten Dear Clouds Frightened Palms

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.”

Knows Want Happens Fall Sky Shadow Piano Cartoon Descending

Book:Love and Obstacles

Source: Love and Obstacles

“All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.”

Men May Matter Seems Lasts Fall Sun Imagine Missing One Day Mountain Shadow Rain All Things Breaths Shining Significant Streams

Book:Princeps' Fury

Source: Princeps' Fury

“As you walk through life, always walk toward the light, and the shadows of life will fall behind you.”

Light Fall Walks Behinds Shadow Behind You

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.”

Ifs Knows Moments Fall Pay Attention Doubt Shadow Guts Loops Misguided Convergence

Book:Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

Source: Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

“Eyes watching always Shadows in shadows they wait A black feather falls First accepted, loved Then betrayed-spit in the face Vengeance sweet like dots.”

Firsts Eye Faces Fall Waiting Black Sweet Shadow Accepted Betrayed Vengeance Feathers Spit Dots Eyes Watching

Book:Hunted: A House of Night Novel

Source: Hunted: A House of Night Novel

“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.”

Dream Remember Fall Left Memories Week Dying Shadow Ghost Someday Falling Apart Notebook Slipping Slipping Away

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!”

Night Fall Dark Sky Land Bed Shadow Glasses Snow Grass Apples Chairs Covered Plates Delightful Glimpse Furniture Lamps Crystals Flew Lawns Duplicate Fluff Azure Windowpane Dark Glasses

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.”

Fall Shadow Beast Phantoms

Book:The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation

Source: The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation

“... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.”

Thinking Heart May Bigs Happens Running Fall Loses Worry My Heart Shadow Spite Over You Automobile Germs Frivolous Swallowing Carefree Unconcerned

Author:Jean Webster

“Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and maidens fairer still; but neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor so lovely, and so sorrowful. It may be that only a few days are left ere darkness falls upon our world, and when it comes I hope to face it steadily; but it would ease my heart, if while the Sun yet shines, I could see you still. For you and I have both passed under the wings of the Shadow, and the same hand drew us back.”

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