Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person."
Shadow quotes
Shadow
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Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Designer, Photographer
"Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty"
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The brighter the light, the darker the shadow."
Isabel Allende
Novelist
"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain."
George R. R. Martin
Novelist, Screenwriter
"The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow."
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"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses."
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"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
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"Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour."
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"It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time."
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"What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?"
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"A hope beyond the shadow of a dream."
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"There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."
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"Above all shadows rides the sun."
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"Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby."
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"The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows."
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"Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow."
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"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass."
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"You can only come to the morning through the shadows."
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"I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin."
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"The picture of a shadow is a positive thing."
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"A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow."
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"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane."
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"Remember, light and shadow never stand still."
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"Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss."
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"For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go."
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