How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

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

That if a thing is defined in contrast that’s what life is, the shadow of death. So the mystery of death couldn’t be the bad thing, because without it there wouldn’t be life. The badness...

A shadow is midnight’s whisper, I thought as I shouted at my invisible clone. Killing your own clone is the only time you could commit murder and suicide at the same time by killing just...

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I reminded them of Orafoura’s shadow, I’d have a penny more than ninety nine cents. And even then that’s because I muttered it to...

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact...

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

I have always been afraid… Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am … scared to death just treading on your shadow.

God your love is so precious! You protect people in the shadow of your wings. Psalms 36:7

The with is shorter than the without, but the with makes the without bearable, as the shadow of memory is long and bright. Let this be a lesson in love.

I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme – to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our ‘blues’ are the price we...

I found you in the whispers of the shadow… luring me out into the light. Swallowed by the song and richness of the breath dancing in depth and perception wide. Heart within your eyes, soul...

Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say.Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say this meaning too:Give it the shadow.Give it shadow enough,Give it as muchAs you know is spread round you...

When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.

I’d be afraid of a man with two shadows, because that man is my clone, and he probably wants to kill me.

All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow.

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind...

Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all things, the light and the darkness, not only those things that seem good...

Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of...

Stop. J’en suis sorti. Des souvenirs. Du passé. Mais tôt ou tard les choses que tu as laissé derrière toi te rattrapent. Et les choses les plus simples, quand tu es amoureux, te semblent les...

trust is my fellow shadow

Questa luce, cioè la storia, è spietata; essa ha questo di strano e di divino, e cioè che quantunque sia luce, e precisamente perché è luce, mette spesso dell’ombra là dove si vedono raggi; dello...

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see....

A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real...

You owe it to yourself to develop the real you out of your own gifts and enlarge your territories on influence. Don’t live in your own shadow. Live in your own you!

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

Crawling out of the flophouseI saw the mayor stealing my junkI doth protest, citizen’s arrestNow my body’s in his trunkWhere’s the shadow government when you need it?Where’s the shadow government?It’s a bad, bad world!

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

There was nothing the matter out there. It was in here, with me.I decided I’d better go to work, maybe that would exorcise me. I fled from the room almost as though it were haunted....

God is not many. God is one. But many and divers are yet men’s shadows. So long as men cast shadows on the earth, so long as each man’s god no greater than hi shadow....

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror – we all have it – that shadow self – that dark heart…

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Shadow is Light’s child. It is nothing without the Light, and nothing if it falls into Darkness.

My shadow follows me during the day, and then surrounds me at night as it clones itself into complete darkness. Now that’s self-love.

The world will not spin slower or faster when we have passed through the gate together. What remains is light on water, or a shifting shadow.

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.

Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.

I’m 30-years-old, and I still can’t get out from under my father’s shadow. He’s really tall, so maybe I’ll just ask him to move over a few feet.

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

It’s patterns,” he said. “If they think you’re a hero, they’re wrong. After you die, you don’t get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go,...

When ‘Dirty Mack’ salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy...

He’s looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from...

If you try to take our heart without earning our soul, our heart will break

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.