When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.