(437 quotes found)
“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines”
Benjamin Franklin
“Where there is much light, the shadow is deep”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.”
Buddha
“Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe”
Gabriela Mistral
“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“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.”
C.S. Lewis
“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows”
Chamfort
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Abraham Lincoln