Evil is like a shadow. It follows you.
– Yaa Gyasi
Related Quotes:
- History is Storytelling. – Yaa Gyasi
- As long as he lived, it would always be a pleasure and a gift to fill his hands with the weight of her flesh. – Yaa Gyasi
- … as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing. – Yaa Gyasi
- Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
- Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
- A good deed that follows upon another is the reward for the first one, and an evil deed that follows upon another is a punishment for the first one. – Junayd
- Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him was the sense of absence. – Haruki Murakami
- You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare. – Stephen King
- Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. – Amit Abraham
- The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. – Thomas Jefferson
- She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil. – Agatha Christie
- When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil? – Nick Joaqun
- If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil. – AE Samaan
- Daughter follows mother in actions and habits and some times also follows her granny. – Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri
- Be forever young in the flesh, it makes the mind flash light low, until the spotlight follows your shadow. – Goitsemang Mvula
- No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura – Haruki Murakami
- My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done. – Elizabeth I
- Remember, thy own shadow isn’t far from thyself; in reality, it always follows thee, even in complete darkness (and in silence). – Sandeep N Tripathi
- Don’t chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don’t run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment . – Thich Nhat Hanh
- We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha Gautama
- Don’t ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Death is a shadow that always follows the body – English Proverb
- Without the sun, there is no shadow; without the Son, there is only shadow. – Anthony Liccione
- What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. – Oscar Wilde
- A human’s best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow. – Manuel Rivas
- Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness. – Joseph Conrad
- How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. – Gillian Flynn
- No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes. – Plato
- The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. – Ferdinand Magellan
- It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow. – Ray Bradbury
- As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. – John Dewey
- Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln
- Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. – Anas Nin
- Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. – Anas Nin
- It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I’m stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really. – Will Advise
- Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist’s only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life. – Isobelle Carmody
- There’s no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things. – Stuart Hill
- It’s not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn’t evil, it’s just incredibly stupid. – Robert Jordan
- That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this – a hole in the goodness of God. – Ann Voskamp