I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.
Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to be the man who found a way to save Judith
Choose great people and shine in their shadows
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.
It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
The shadows are as important as the light.
Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture. . . make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.
I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only one mode. . . pissed off. In reality, he had plenty of them. Over the past few weeks, I’d learned to tell the difference between real pissed off, impatient pissed off and scared pissed off. I suspected that this was the last kind. If so, that made two of us.
We are but dust and shadows.
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.
But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.