Shadow Quotes

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

~ William Blake

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

~ Plutarch

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

~ Andrew Weil

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

~ William Shakespeare

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

~ Charles Wolfe

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

~ Guy De Maupassant

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

~ Carl Sandburg

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

~ Thomas Paine

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

~ William Butler Yeats

I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity.

~ Joshua Oppenheimer

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

~ Robert Jackson

My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.

~ Rachel Kushner