Quotes tagged ‘Shadows’

“I still see your shadows in my room Can't take back the love that I gave you It's to the point where I love and I hate you And I cannot change you, so I must replace you, oh Easier said than done, I thought you were the one Listenin' to my heart instead of my head…”

— Juice WRLD, open.spotify.com

“How wide the sidewalks were! You stood in the middle of ours. Definite and debonair. Mama with a big black Patent leather handbag. Strap Draped over her arm. Chic. Loose coat holding no baby inside. Madaddy suited, slanted wide brim hat. At attention As if he were seeing Paris After the war. All smi…”

— Angela Jackson, apmpodcasts.org

“Oh, so you think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then to me it was only blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me.”

— Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Bane, Tom Hardy, imdb.com

“Secrets only live in shadows and there are no shadows in the light.”

— Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Frank Dean, Kip Pardue, imdb.com

“This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove th…”

— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com

“My world became a nightmare. There were just shadows around me.”

— Layne Staley, northwestmusicscene.net

“I learned to stay in the shadows. To protect such a heart as this you gave me.”

— John Logan, The Creature, Rory Kinnear, imdb.com

“There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com

“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars….I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness....”

— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com

“Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifes…”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“I was living in twilight, George. Living in the shadows. Living in the darkness...like you.”

— Larry Charles, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unmourned, well, you get the drift. As a counselor once told me -- a counselo…”

— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com

“they loved us, those stars. They must have, anyway, for they did what no one did, what even we could not: they saw us and spared us.”

— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com

“I know about the stars. That night they made shadows of us, made us bigger, wilder than we were--”

— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com