Best shadow & wind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

“Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!”

Light Song Company Tree Wind Moon Eternal Bird Shadow Lonely Clouds Lonely Trees

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.”

Way Certain Grows Wind Shadow Adversity Sunshine Sooner Or Later

Author:Arthur Bryant

“We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.”

Use Light Desire Wind Shadow Train Clouds Carrie Phantoms Straws

Book:The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections

Source: The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections

“Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.”

Bigs Literature Names Waiting My Own Behinds Leader Century Wind Shadow Vote Opposition Twentieth Century Cabinets Winds Of Change

Author:Hugh Kingsmill

“Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.”

Long Truth Wind Truth Is Shadow Breaths Touched Pursued Garments Phantoms Hem

Book:War Is Kind and Other Poems

Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems

“I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?”

People Ifs Writing Would Be Games Wind Angel Shadow Okay Upset Shadow Of The Wind

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.”

“Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.”

Joy Next House Church Party Grief Comedy Doors Sadness Streets Wind Return Shadow Mirrors Funeral Contrast Sigh Curtains Gladness Shutters Sadness Of Life Joy And Grief Wedding Party

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“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

“Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.”

Love Should Sun Wind Ten Lows Draws Shadow Wings Driving Rings Hills Faster Beam Dove Cupid Nimble

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“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

“You probably can't imagine there being a glory in your life, let alone one that the Enemy fears. But remember - things are not what they seem. We are not what we seem. You probably believed that your heart was bad too. I pray that fog of poison gas from the pit of hell is fading away in the wind of God's truth. And there is more. Not only does Christ say to you that your heart is good, he invites you now out of the shadows to unveil your glory. You have a role you never dreamed of having.”

Source: Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire

“Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.”

Men Dream Wind Shadow Substance Torches

Author:George Chapman

“Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.”

Firsts Light Can Do Common Sun Effects Planets Wind Shadow Forests Complexity Branches Obscure

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.”

Light Wind Quiet Mountain Shadow Yellow Stirring Trunks Aspens

Author:Ansel Adams

“When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.”

Wind Shadow Ups & Downs Shadow Of The Wind

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.”

Men Light Desire Universe Wind Shadow Slave Chaos Clouds

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.”

World Want Looks Play Light Together Sun Four Wind Shadow Casts Available Around The World

Author:Neil Peart

“I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.”

Thinking Wind Bed Shadow Hospitals Larger Than Life

Author:Jodi Picoult

“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

“It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.”

Stories Dream Wind Shadow Hatred Shadow Of The Wind

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“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

“Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.”

Men Wells Book Character Stories Dream Lost Novel Wind Pages Shadow Hatred Betrayal Broke Jackets True Story Victorian Lost Friendship Bookshops Shadow Of The Wind

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?”

Years Behinds Gone Fire Growing Sea Wind Hair Mountain Spring Shadow Red Rain Horse West Burning Smoke Hills Tall Harvest Corn Horns Glowing Riders Meadows Harps Helm Two Towers Rohan

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”

Source: Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1

“A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.”

Doors Wind Shadow Slam Back Doors

Book:The city in which I love you: poems

Source: The city in which I love you: poems

“Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.”

Church Four Wind Shadow Army Apocalypse Baking Horsemen Shadow Of The Wind Four Horsemen Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Torres

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will keep you while you play Just as ol' river keeps the fishes And little stars keep silver wishes Just as the ocean keeps the blue I will stand here close to you. When all around is dark and deep When them ol' shadows slowly creep Even when you're fast asleep It's you I'll keep, it's you I'll keep No need to cry, no need to fear I will always be right here. I will always be right here.”

Needs Littles Play Wish Stars Dark Break Sky Cry Sweet Wind Moon Ocean Shadow Rivers Blue Fishes Silver Creeps Sunbeams

Book:The Underneath

Source: The Underneath

“At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.”

Firsts Two Light Together Girl Black Dark Space White Perfect Cities Wind Hair Shadow Dresses Dawn Butterfly Midnight Violet Purple Blonde Moths Ponies Rant Rave Dark Hair

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.”

Asks Grows Tree Wind Offers Safe Shadow Roots Green Plant Rounds Delight Ruins Decay Lightning Jane Lighting Vigorous Props Freshness Orchard Chestnuts Rochester

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.”

Ifs Feels Two Done Night Dark Morning Sun Tree Feet Wind Shadow Window Clock Moonlight Dark Night Deep Dark Glisten

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.”

Men Made Home Eye Earth Spirit Evil Black Dark Sea Middle Wind Terrible Shapes Shadow Fairs Hatred Silent Endure Flesh Rings Mortals Visible Malice Guise Middle Earth Sauron Mordor

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“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

“As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.”

World Wells May Made Dream Age Desire Night Wish Sound Voice Morning Tree Wind Shadow Let Me Green Shining Spread Rising Horizon

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.”

Hands Grace Wind Shadow Skins Good Life Hazel Grace Gus

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment.”

World Looks Long Said Black Rocks Wind Highest Shadow Breaths Touched Towers Pursued Garments Traveller Phantoms Fortresses Hem

Book:War Is Kind and Other Poems

Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems

“Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs by sheer will to extend his life. "Fly...Rider, with great speed. Don't read m-message. Then they can't tor-torture...it from you. If captured, shred it and toss it to the winds." Then, because his voice had grown so faint, she had to lean very close to hear his final words. "Beware the shadow man." A cold tremor ran through Karigan's body. "I'll do my best," she told him.”

Ifs Men Body Voice Air Wind Cold Messages Shadow Finals Speed Ran Torture Sheer Lungs Captured Riders Messengers Toss Final Words

Book:Green Rider: Book One of Green Rider

Source: Green Rider: Book One of Green Rider

“For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”

“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”

World Moments Light Fall Memories Movement Particular Wind Shadow Clouds Gaps Valleys Now And Then Sunlight Shifting Patches Seals Illuminating Overcast

Author:Tan Twan Eng

“Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks, My busy heart who shudders as she talks Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.”

Heart Sides Walks Sun Fire Blood Sea Land Wind Hair Bird Shadow Sticks Fingers Winter Busy Casts Caught Hearing Noise Shed October Drains Ravens Crabs

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.”

Soul Fear Atheism Wind Shadow Rage Down The Road Zeppelins

Author:Robert Plant

“Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs Through golden August noons.”

Long Dream Silence Sun Wind Return Thousand Summer Shadow Green Calm Ancient Warm Stealing Golden Burning Breasts Lakes June August Noon

Author:William Braithwaite

“Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.”

Wind Offers Shadow Cat Slips Angle Neat Liquid Loopholes

Author:A. S. J. Tessimond

“A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.”

“All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content.”

“So with the stretch of the white road before me, Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun, Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows, Strong with the strength of my horse as we run. Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight! Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.”

Long Running Earth Joy Strong White Sun Fields Wind Shadow Horse Blue Shining Winter Snow Sunlight Crystals Vigorous

Book:A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Source: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

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