Shed Quotes

• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

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• We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

  Patti Smith

  Skins

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• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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• If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Strength, Tears

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [174]

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• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Inspirational, Time, Broken Hearted

  "The Amazon of Letters". Book by George Wickes, 1976.

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• He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he can accomplish this if he judges himself and all he does. For then he sheds all fears and lifts fear that has fallen down. But if he does not judge himself, he will be judged from on high, and this judgment will come upon him in the guise of countless things, and all the things in the world will become messengers of God who carry out the judgment on this man.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Light, Judging

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• The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

  John Divola

  Snakes, Skins, Photograph

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• A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Squares

  Speech, Springfield, Ill., 4 July 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 12

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• I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

  Marcel Marceau

  Destiny, Men, Light

  Wall Street Journal, November 19, 1965.

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• Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

  Billy Graham

  Strength, Christian, Self

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

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• The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

  Dean Koontz

  Sunset, Night, Whispering

  Dean Koontz (2010). “Twilight Eyes”, p.257, Penguin

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• The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Light, Perspective

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• The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Mother, Stars, Father

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• Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Rain, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4053, Delphi Classics

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• To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit, And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.

  John Keats

  Dream, Sweet, Eye

  John Keats (1841). “The poetical works of John Keats”, p.195

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• Life, to me, is never one color. Even in the saddest moments, you can have a chuckle. And in the happiest moments, you can shed a tear.

  Francesca Gregorini

  Color, Tears, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Faith, Lying, Past

  "Full text: statement by Iain Duncan Smith", www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2001.

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• The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Men, Wish, Tears

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire I, line 90,

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• The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Light, Trying, Vices

  Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears, declaring openly to Christ your thoughts and deeds, so that you may be justified.

  Andrew of Crete

  Religious, Jesus, Rain

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• No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

  Antonio Machado

  Light, Understanding, Vices

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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  Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
  For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
  America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
  And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

  George Carlin

  Beautiful, Song, Nature

  "Class Clown". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1972.

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• Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.

  Belle Starr

  Sympathy, Regret, Lying

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