#shadow

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#foreshadowing #striving #excellence

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#divorce

If I die, who’s going to take care of my shadow? Or will it return to the night, from whence it came? While I sleep at night I keep my shadow folded neatly in my underwear drawer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#die #funny #random #shadow #death

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#creative #fresh #only #original #shadows

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. ↗

— Martha Beck

#come #i #infinite #into #light

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#falls #life #loss #possession #shadow

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#cross #false #friends #instant #into

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#existence #lending #nothing #poetry #shadows

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties. ↗

— Gary Busey

#balloons #blowing #companion #dark #dark side

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#arouse #art #bad #does #even