Shadow Quotes

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

Shadow is Light’s child. It is nothing without the Light, and nothing if it falls into Darkness.

~ Anne Hamilton

For some, memories are a blessing. They give one something to look at and cherish in dark times. For some, memories are a curse. They give one pain, guilt, and sorrow. But for all, memories make up who we are now.

~ Taylor Chackowsky

There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these shadows as everything unpleasant in the world, it cannot be so, it is not so. Just as there is beauty in the light, the shadow hold it's own muted allure and of both shades, there are songs and dances and revelry and sorrow. They are one and the same, different sides of the same coin, a mirror image looking at itself. The only thing that sets them apart, and will continue to divide these two spectrums, is our perception of the 'fact' that one is light and one is shadow.

~ Kensi Brianne Smith

Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Here upon earth there is life, and then death,Dawn, and later nightfall,Fire, and the quenching of embers:But why should I not remember that my night is dawn in another part of the world,If the idea fits my fancy?

~ John Gould Fletcher

And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must be instructed how to Cast them with due Care. It is only the Darknesse that can give trew Forme to our Work and trew Perspective to our Fabrick, for there is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe (and I turn this Thought over in my Mind: what Life is there which is not a Portmanteau of Shaddowes and Chimeras?). I build in the Day to bring News of the Night and of Sorrowe, I continued, and then I broke off for Walter's sake.

~ Peter Ackroyd

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

~ Ashim Shanker

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

~ Ashim Shanker

Each of us has an equal amount of Shadow and Light buried in our souls. What makes us different is how much Shadow we choose to suppress, and how much Light we choose to show.

~ Taylor Chackowsky

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable sovereignties accompanied by invisible flames, invisible chains, which, coming to light, step after step, cause us to shine.

~ René Char

In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops. in the poem Beyond the Beacon from Terra Affirmative.

~ Jay Woodman

There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.

~ Franco Santoro

You don't find light by avoiding the darkness.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

That I feed the beggar, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ, all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least o’ my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yeah, the very fiend himself, that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved. What then? Then, as a rule, the whole truth of Christianity is reversed: there is then no more talk of love and long-suffering; we say to the brother within us “Raca,” and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide him from the world, we deny ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves, and had it been God himself who drew near to us in this despicable form, we should have denied him a thousand times before a single cock had crowed.

~ C.g. Jung

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

~ Euripides

Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are. He favored Jon with a rueful grin. Remember this, boy. All dwarfs are bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs. And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

~ George R.r. Martin

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.

~ Melissa Andrea

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

~ John Dewey

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

~ Vera Nazarian

I am you, Umasi, and I am weak. the shadow spun around and began walking away. In the end, either you will conquer me…or I will conquer you.

~ Isamu Fukui

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

Every time I am in the dark and a bit of light falls on me, I see a bit of you in my shadows. There is always a bit of you in every song I hear, in every thought I conceive, in every rain that I drench in, in every star that I stare at in the sky every night and in every breeze that touches me.

~ Akshay Vasu

The memory of having sat at someone’s feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot. I’m trying to fend off your admiration for me, you see, in order to save myself from your future contempt. I prefer to put up with my present state of loneliness rather than suffer more loneliness later. We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It’s the price we pay for these times of ours.

~ Sōseki Natsume

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow

~ Haruki Murakami

My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself...

~ Munia Khan

Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn’t mean you cannot see them.

~ A.d.y. Howle

When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose - allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf.

~ T.f. Hodge

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

~ W.h. Auden

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

~ Neil Gaiman

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...

~ John Geddes

His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.

~ Courtney Milan

There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith.

~ Brownell Landrum

Beneath the moons' shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination...

~ Virginia Alison

To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is....is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

~ Faye Hall

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping through the screen to lay their hands on the naked lady in the bathtub!AMBASSADOR: And yet, in fact, their fingers touch flesh.MINISTER: They believe they do. Yet all they touch is substantial shadow.AMBASSADOR: And what a beautiful definition of flesh! You know I am only substantial shadow, Minister, but if you cut me, I bleed. Touch me, I palpitate!

~ Angela Carter

That if a thing is defined in contrast that's what life is, the shadow of death. So the mystery of death couldn't be the bad thing, because without it there wouldn't be life. The badness was life, just happening, as essential a part of the good as the good. And what was there to do but to take it as it comes and to hope, to hope constantly and carnally and with no time to lose.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

I love to chase my shadow to feel how it rests in the dark.

~ Munia Khan