The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.

Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawnIndicative that suns go down;The notice to the startled grassThat darkness is about to pass.

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being?

Don’t let your shadows dictate to you where you should stand

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all.

There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you...

With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that...

Don’t regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

Who said death is dead? He’s fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better...

There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is...

Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.

Personal enlightenment within an individual is a beautiful and often shocking process. We are shocked when we see the shadows for the first time and realise these things are in us! But it is only...

disclaimer:This is a work of nonfiction, but it is also full of dreams, speculations, and shadows. Many names have been changed.

Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their...

Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God; face the brighter light and cast behind the dark shadows!

Shadows go in front of you, leading into your future, and trail behind you, leaving a part of you in the past. They are clearest when we are in the light, and disappear when we...

Trees surrounded them from all sides, casting long inky shadows that would, at another time, have been scary. But there was no point in being scared of what might be lurking in the shadows when...

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quite out of reach, never, never to come back. It was bright to...

I think of myself… as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

I am a tale, I am a book, written in different languages and styles I can’t be read, can’t be understood,neither by me nor the greatest of minds I am too big, I am too...

They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.

And the heart sounds like a sour conch,calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:the sea reports sonorouslyon its languid shadows, its green poppies.

Fear of shadows was petty. Real fears lived outside the door.

Only love can free us from fear. Fear causes us to cower in the shadows; Love allows us to dance in the sunlight.

Adolphe wondered why Lulu hadn’t told them about this, and then realized she probably would when she thought they were old enough to understand it. He could see it wasn’t something one would want to...

Do you know, we’re right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine...

The darkness agrees with me. It asks me to release it, as loud as a roar and as quiet as a whisper. I remember what my sister said long ago: You must control the darkness....

We are nothing but shadows Fading away Trying to hold on to This bittersweet life That we call our own…

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the...

Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.

There are two types of people in the world, the bright lights and the quite shadows.

. . .after the shadows comes light.

Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows.

Overhead the sliver of a moon barely illuminated anything and shadows slunk on every corner.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this timeDon’t be surprised if even loneliness ignites.In past wars only bodys burnt, but this timeDon’t be surprised if even shadows ignite.