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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

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

Maurice Maeterlinck

Shadow

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

Laurie Lee

Light

Shadow

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

Franklin Knight Lane

Shadow

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

People

Shadow

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Shadow

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Helen Keller

Shadow

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.