Shadows Quotes

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Age, Morning

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Government, Children

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

Sunshine, Keep, Face

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Feelings, Thoughts, Simpler

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Enough, Light

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho

Love, Light, Trap

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens

Dark, Earth, Stronger

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats

Sleep, Deep, Book

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher

Often, Full, Tender

To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Victor Hugo

To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke

Art, Poetry, Nothing

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John Ruskin

Beauty, Light, Enjoyed

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats

Alone, Light, Looks

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel

Truth, Words, Memories

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Charlotte Whitton

Sun, Face, Fall

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Fear, Personal

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert

Themselves, Create, Profound

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus

Real, Between, Difference

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper

Fight, Single, Friend

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry

Love, Religion, Family

When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Austin O'Malley

Through, Remember, Light

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.
Roger Waters

Death, Pain, Night

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe

Sunshine, Perfect, Gone

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
Grandma Moses

Different, Eyes, Sometimes

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
George MacDonald

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Sydney Smith

Love, Respect, Manners

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
David Hockney

Art, Sometimes, Knew

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Life, Enough, Sorrow

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Martha Beck

Light, Infinite, Transport

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