Shadow Quotes

Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler.

~ Amit Kalantri

I know you don't want to be me. But I'd hate for you to ever feel like you're in my shadow. You're not and you never will be. You are awesome, and there is some kind of amazing future waiting for you.

~ Gwenda Bond

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

~ Patricia Highsmith

As light splinters into darkness, new thoughts may take over in the mind and allow upbeat views to gain power. Thus and so, thoughtfulness readily opens a blistering sky in the faltering shadow of unawareness. (Absence of Desire)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

~ F.t. Mckinstry

I don’t want anything else bad to happen,” she whispered, her voice choked with tears. “I’m so sick to death of bad things happening, of seeing bad things that happened in the past! And I’m guilty of so many things. I’m sorry that I killed Mrs. Matthias and wrecked her stupid greenhouse back in the Eighties and I’m sorry I left you here alone while I went around the world.”“I wasn’t alone though, I knew you were doing what you wanted to do and that you were still alive, so I wasn’t really alone, I knew you were still there somewhere,” Alecto told her. His damaged smile and downcast, sorrowful eyes were draped in the shadow of the night, saving Mandy the trouble of seeing.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

~ Dean Koontz

I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by.” And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.

~ Paul Hoffman

Stop living in the shadows of another. You've been given everything needed to live a purposed filled life. Don't be a second rate version of yourself.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.

~ Charles Eisenstein

Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

~ Kathryn V. White

If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow.

~ Anne Ursu

This explosive psychological 'sneaking' occurs when a woman suppresses large parts of self into the shadows of the psyche. In the view of analytical psychology, the repression of both negative and positive instincts, urges, and feelings into the unconscious causes them to inhabit a shadow realm. While the ego and superego attempt to continue to censor the shadow impulses, the very pressure that repression causes is rather like a bubble in the sidewall of a tire. Eventually, as the tire revolves and heats up, the pressure behind the bubble intensifies, causing it to explode outward, releasing all the inner content. The shadow acts similarlyY We find that by opening the door to the shadow realm a little, and letting out various elements a few at a time, relating to them, finding use for them, negotiating, we can reduce being surprised by shadow sneak attacks and unexpected explosions.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

~ C.g. Jung

Father, be near as we are surrounded by this cloud of deep suffering. Open our eyes to see that you are all things, the light and the darkness, not only those things that seem good in our eyes, but the horrifying unexplainable. Wrap us up inside of the cloud and reveal the mysteries that can only be learned in places of sorrow, that when we walk out we will be as Moses, transformed by the shadow and beaming with the radiant light of your glory. Give us the strength to love on, though our hearts are broken.

~ Anna White

When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.

~ Hayley Dimarco

Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life away and become a shadow, a man without past, an actor without a role, and turn even his castaway life, even the role the actor had abandoned, into a shadow. Having turned him into a shadow, they would let him live.

~ Milan Kundera

Things are just things, they can't bring back the dead.It just makes me feel better. - Hiiragi

~ Yoshimoto Banana

Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:Bringing the world to the window.

~ Markus Zusak

How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

~ Gillian Flynn

There are moments when we all step away from the light...

~ Gume Laurel Iii

The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.

~ Jay Kristoff

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

~ C.g. Jung

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

~ Robert Jordan

Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.

~ Erica Alex

Be forever young in the flesh, it makes the mind flash light low, until the spotlight follows your shadow.

~ Goitsemang Mvula

Life is a continuum; neither black nor white, but a series of shades from light to dark. When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.

~ Brownell Landrum

When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.

~ Brownell Landrum

For too long I have played on the stage of lucidity, and I have lost. Now I need to accustom my eyes to the falling darkness. I need to contemplate the natural slumber of all things, which the light calls forth, yet also causes to tire. Life must begin in darkness. Its powers of germination lie hidden. Every day has its night, every light has its shadow.I cannot be asked to accept these shadows gladly. It is enough that I accept them.

~ Mihail Sebastian

Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the hour of light.

~ Pablo Neruda

It seems to me that when you look back at a life - yours or another's - what you see is a path that weaves into and out of deep shadow. So much is lost. What we use to construct the past is what has remained in the open, a hodgepodge of fleeting glimpses. Our histories, like my father's current body, are structures built of toothpicks. So what I recall of that last summer in New Bremen is a construct of both what stands in the light and what I imagine in the dark where I cannot see.

~ William Kent Krueger

It was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.

~ Laura Whitcomb

Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God, face the brighter light and cast behind the dark shadows!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Turn and face the Light, and all you see is Brightness. Turn and face Shadow, and all of Life will appear before you.

~ Stan Sudan

You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.

~ Michelle Hodkin

God is not many. God is one. But many and divers are yet men's shadows. So long as men cast shadows on the earth, so long as each man's god no greater than hi shadow. The shadow-less only are all in the light. The shadow-less only know one god. For god is Light, and Light alone is able to know Light.

~ Mikhail Naimy

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.

~ S. Kelley Harrell