Shadow Quotes - Page 15

• I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.

  Mabel Cheung

  War, Home, Islands

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

  Nick Cave

  Moving, Becoming, Ghost

  Interview with Andrew Dominik, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2013.

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• Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

  David Whyte

  Casts, Fearful

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Grief, Self

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Shadow Work, Way, Small Parts

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

  David McCullough

  Determination, Courageous, Dangerous

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all his heart, does not suffer spiritual ruins - but he will also not have his own self-based constructions. Instead, he takes shelter in the shadow of the natural constructions, like rabbits under boulders. But one who has a human soul cannot take shelter in anything other than constructions that he builds with his own spiritual toil.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Spiritual, Heart, Light

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• People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. The Apostle Thomas was artistic up to a certain point. He appreciated the value of shadows in a picture. To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die.

  Robert Smythe Hichens

  Believe, People, Doubt

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• You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

  Adi Shankara

  Dream, Reflection, Imagination

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• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  Growing Up, War, Moving

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• The gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way than through our enemies. Our friends seldom tell us these things; they are our friends precisely because they are able to overlook or ignore this part of us. The enemy is thus not merely a hurdle to be leaped on the way to God. The enemy can be the way to God. We cannot come to terms with our shadow except through our enemies.

  Walter Wink

  Enemy, May, Able

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• When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

  Al Neuharth

  Men, Voice, Silence

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• What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they paint shadows in European art? Shadows are because of optics. Optics need shadows and strong light. Strong light makes the deepest shadows. It took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. There are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures.

  David Hockney

  Art, Strong, Light

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

  Michael Herr

  America, Islam, Desert

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• Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Wind, Branches

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• After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Caves, Century, Stills

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.167, Vintage

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• Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dream, Past, Dust

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• To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Looks, Substance

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• How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

  Paul Gauguin

  Blue, Yellow, Tree

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• I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

  Juan Gris

  White, Black, Paper

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• All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, America, Risk

  "Obama's Big Immigration Speech Sets Up Possible Shutdown Showdown With GOP" by Hunter Walker, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.

  Charlotte Church

  Thinking, Restaurants, Hotel

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• Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up.

  Daphne Merkin

  Cheer, Suffering, World

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• A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Men, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.85, Library of Alexandria

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• An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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