shadows quotes

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

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.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

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

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

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

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

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

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.