Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on. JULIEN TORMA Just remember, a dark shadow need light to exist but light doesn't need darkness to be luminous. GWEN HAYES The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminishe... LEONARDO DA VINCI When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two to... PAUL CEZANNE There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these s... KENSI BRIANNE SMITH the true shadow is not made by darkness but of light. JOHNNY MORPHINE For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them ... SETH ADAM SMITH Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, / Before I go w... BIBLE Photography is the presentation of mystery and enigma that has been hidden between light and darknes... ZIHNI OZGUR BALIKOGLU Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears. DEBORAH BRODIE The door closed and darkness claimed the room. R.J. LAWRENCE Where there is light there shall be darkness, anything that light shines on it will always cast a sh... ANTONIO MOODY Shadow owes its birth to light. JOHN GAY When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced JOHN M SHEEHAN Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad... S. J. ROZAN Believing you are good is like believing in the half moon. THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life des... AMIT RAY A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it.... TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the ... LEIGH BARDUGO Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow... MARY STEWART Thus shadow owes its birth to light. JOHN GAY Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 The valley of the shadow of death holds no da... DWIGHT L. MOODY I watched the contrast of dark and light form shadows in solidarity. Neither projects a shadow in so... IAN IJH HOWELL Light is the shadow of God. PLATO At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What c... ASHIM SHANKER It's the beauty of light, don't you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It's eve... MICHAEL GRANT, LIGHT (GONE SERIES, #6) It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. D... HELEN HUMPHREYS I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me. AZAR NAFISI В молчании — слово, А свет лишь во тьме. И жизнь по... Урсула Ле Гуин Что за смех, что за радость, когда мир постоянно горит? �... BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI Каким бы темным и страшным не казался тебе сейчас мир, �... GOTHAM Грех не в темноте, а в нежелании света. Цветаева М.И. Легче зажечь одну маленькую свечу, чем клясть темноту. Конфуций অন্ধকারে চেরাগ জ্বালানো' আর 'অন্ধের সা... SHOBUJ TAPOSH Every light has its own shadow. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need t... C. JOYBELL C. Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they neve... COURTNEY M. PRIVETT And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the ligh... SETH ADAM SMITH It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker. MARGARET MAHY Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things... THOMAS BROWNE SR. You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d... THERESE MAY For every item that carries the darkness of humanity there's one that holds the light. And that ligh... C.M. RAYNE How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who fol... CHRISTY A. CAMPBELL I refuse to shine upon a dark world, because any light which dares to cast its rays forth into the v... JUSTIN APPEL What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the powe... C. JOYBELL C. A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it.... TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS There's eternal opposition between yin and yang. No third party at all, but treason occurs som... TOBA BETA A man of great stature one day turned and said to the man in his shadow, 'Step out into the light an... DIETMAR PAHL I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow ... MARGARET ATWOOD My creative spirit is nourished by my passion for nature. Working in clay reveals my infatuation wit... LINDA NANNIZZI All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Ligh... LOUIS KAHN I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The battle between good and evil is actually the battle of occupying either more light or more shado... APURVA GAGLANI Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You ... LIBBA BRAY Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. PYTHAGORAS Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light a... JAMES TURRELL The world is in balance <...>. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. URSULA K. LEGUIN To light a candle is to cast a shadow. URSULA K. LE GUIN To light a candle is to cast a shadow. UNKNOWN To light a candle is to cast a shadow... URSULA K. LE GUIN When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When you are in darkness, you los... ZAIN BALOCH If I've learned anything in my life, it's that there is no darkness so absolute that it cannot be di... KERRIGAN BYRNE Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. JOHANN VON GOETHE Where there is much light, the shadow is deep JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In the depth a light will grow, A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in t... ROBERT FANNEY You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become... JULIE KAGAWA Бог приходят ярким светом В души к людям, тьмой одет�... Уильям Блейк You don't find light by avoiding the darkness. S. KELLEY HARRELL A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide t... JUSTIN DAVID NEVINS Just as the morning light sweeps away the night, the darkness within me began to be chased away by a... ANASAZI FOUNDATION Light brings the day and light leaves the night. Use your time wisely. Reach for the light BRENT M. JONES Step into the light and create your own shadow. R. A. BENTINCK Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore... EDNA O'BRIEN If you make a choice to walk into the darkness, eventually you may come to know that love is the inv... JENNIFER SODINI Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness. TRUTH DEVOUR Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light... SHAKTI GAWAIN Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are ca... C. JOYBELL C. So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it... LAO TZU What are you smiling at?” I whirled, peering into the gloom. The Darkling’s voice se... LEIGH BARDUGO I love to chase my shadow to feel how it rests in the dark. MUNIA KHAN There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space an... ROD SERLING There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space an... ROD STERLING As light splinters into darkness, new thoughts may take over in the mind and allow upbeat views to g... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Our real problem is not the pervasiveness of the darkness but a failure of the light. Light always d... DANIEL HENDERSON There is strong shadow where there is much light. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thy dark eyes beckon me into the darkest nether world of dark galaxies and darker supernovas. Foreve... AVIJEET DAS The sun is rising with a bright golden glittering glint. Let us wake up to enjoy the joyful battles ... DEBASISH MRIDHA A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgr... BRUNO DUMONT In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to
see the difference between things; ... A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. SOCRATES I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. PABLO NERUDA Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and... NORA ROBERTS There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness. IDOWU KOYENIKAN
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STEVEN MAGEE Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death. STEVEN MAGEE When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet... STEVEN KOTLER It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benef... STEVEN MAGEE I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parti... STEVEN MAGEE We're all stories, in the end. STEVEN MOFFAT Always speak politely to an enraged dragon. STEVEN BRUST When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run ... STEVEN MOFFAT He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ... STEVEN MILLHAUSER Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform... 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STEVEN WRIGHT Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things... STEVEN WEINBERG One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it h... STEVEN DEITZ Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo... STEVEN WRIGHT The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. STEVEN CHU Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should reme... STEVEN ROGERS I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches. STEVEN WRIGHT I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. STEVEN WRIGHT A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any ti... STEVEN DEITZ People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua... STEVEN SPIELBERG My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l... STEVEN SPIELBERG So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It'... STEVEN CHU Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is on... STEVEN PINKER