Best shadow & humans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)

“We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Humans Would Be Water Born Chance Opinion Dying Human Nature Shadow Weak Essence Thoughtful Uncertain Vague Participation Clutch Midway

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“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.”

“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

“One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all his heart, does not suffer spiritual ruins - but he will also not have his own self-based constructions. Instead, he takes shelter in the shadow of the natural constructions, like rabbits under boulders. But one who has a human soul cannot take shelter in anything other than constructions that he builds with his own spiritual toil.”

Humans Heart Doe Soul Self Light Spiritual Suffering Natural Goodness Shadow Ruins Wander Construction Shelter Toil Rabbits Human Soul Expanse Boulders

Author:Abraham Isaac Kook

“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

“Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization.”

Source: In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986

“I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.”

Thinking Humans Certain Left Rooms Taken Wall Shadow Empty Mark Photograph Disappear Absence Etc Empty Rooms

Author:Mona Kuhn

“If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.”

Ifs Humans Persons Moments Realizing Ordinary Shadow Consequence Shame Encounters Concrete Burned Discomfort Hiroshima Complicity Ordinary Person

Author:Chris Abani

“I want the audience to think about how many people are hiding in the shadows with the condition. I want the film to take away the stigma of thinking of this as a disease and an illness to be crushed. I want those in the condition to shine and contribute to the human spirit.”

People Thinking Want Humans Film Spirit Audience Conditions Disease Shadow Shining Illness Hiding Human Spirit Crushed Stigma Hiding In The Shadows

Author:Paul Dalio

“I think the challenge for humans remains the same as it has always been: to learn the skills of kindness, compassion, and love. Without these sacred skills, all technology can do is grow the shadows in our lives.”

Thinking Humans Grows Can Do Challenges Compassion Kindness Technology Our Lives Skills Shadow And Love Remains Sacred

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.”

Knows Humans Wanted Together Dies Waiting Can Do Behinds Hero Understood Shadow Skins Leaving Terror Slips

Book:The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction

Source: The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on.”

“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

“Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.”

Humans Walks Conditions Genius Shadow Madness Brilliant Insanity Human Condition Disturbed Baking Creepy Soda Pals Vinegar Thelma And Louise Baking Soda

Book:Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade

Source: Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade

“Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.”

Source: Everything I Know About Writing

“The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.”

Humans Wells Looks Doe Said Real Evil Sides Secret Break Saws Figures Eternal Shadow Vices Disaster Dragons Witch Shells Inquiry Real Things Vice Versa Doorways Nature Of Evil

Author:Gregory Maguire

“I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. I am the Guardian. The Soulless Keeper. Neither Human, nor Apollite, I exist beyond the realm of the Living, beyond the realm of the Dead. I am the Dark-Hunter. And I am Eternal…unless I find that one pure heart who will never betray me. The one whose faith and courage can return my soul to me and bring me back into the light. (Dark-Hunter Creed)”

“Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.”

Humans Understanding Shadow Glasses

Book:The Year Of The Flood

Source: The Year Of The Flood

“The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.”

Way Mind Humans Persons Moments Powerful Half Forever Tears Pure Shadow Fingers Leaving Terror Holes Human Mind Fragile Cobwebs

Book:Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary

Source: Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary

“No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.”

“Then I guess we cannot miss the famous festival in New Orleans," he found himself saying, just to take the shadows from her eyes. She was silent a moment, her fingers twisting in the blanket. "Do you mean it, Gregori? We can go?" "You know how much I love crowds of humans," he said, straight-faced. She laughed at him. "They don't bite." "I do," he said, the words low and soft, his silver gaze at once possessive.”

Knows Humans Mean Said Moments Eye Found Know How Missing Lows Shadow Silent Fingers Crowds Silver Bites Laughed Her Eyes New Orleans Festivals Blanket Possessive

Author:Christine Feehan

“Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Humans Sometimes Light Evil Pay Balance Shadow Killing Good And Evil Light And Shadow

Book:The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4

Source: The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4

“Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.”

Humans Human Beings Shadow Cat Jungle Prowling

Author:Karel Capek

“Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront, other times in the shadows, but they are always there. They don't belong to any one particular religion, although many modern people try to associate them with Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. No one religion holds total responsibility for the belief in angels. In truth, these religions only support the existence of angels, they didn't create them.”

People Trying Humans Sometimes Culture Belief Race Existence Responsibility Christianity Support Modern Particular Civilization Angel Shadow Islam Associates Judaism Human History

Author:Silver RavenWolf

“The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights”

Humans States America Walks Party Rights Shadow Democratic Human Rights Sunshine Democratic Party States Rights Infringement

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.”

Life Humans Soul Dies Quiet Shadow Human Life Immortality Immortal Contemplating Blown Away Immortal Soul

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

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