Shadow Quotes

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Philosophically speaking, shadows of people are friendlier than people themselves because they come together very easily!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I will not be my father's dog.

~ Neil Gaiman

For your shadow, you are his shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

They dived into the ocean of shadow and smog, adding to it with the fumes of their own aircraft. The goggles were useless now, but Jacob kept them on, in case there might be some break in the murky pool. It was fitting that the Worldwaker had passed through there, with the shark emblem painted on brightly. In those deep waters it could not be seen. It almost felt like it had lured them in. The dolphins do not hunt the sharks.

~ Dean F. Wilson

The world will not spin slower or faster when we have passed through the gate together. What remains is light on water, or a shifting shadow.

~ Emmi Itäranta

The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.

~ Ishmael Beah

When you acknowledge the audience's shadow you become their hero.

~ Luis Cubero

You worry me, Mags, so self-contained and quiet. Hazelton would not have been my choice for you.Why not?He's a man who dwells in the shadows and appears to like it there. You have enough shadows of your own.Maybe he sees me as I really am because shadows don't deter him.

~ Grace Burrowes

I found you in the whispers of the shadow... luring me out into the light. Swallowed by the song and richness of the breath dancing in depth and perception wide. Heart within your eyes, soul in your word, I found home upon the essence of you.

~ Jennifer Hillman

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

~ Samuel Smiles

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

~ Pindar

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

~ Junot Díaz

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

~ Dewitt Clinton

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

~ Martin Luther King

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

~ Michelangelo

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

~ Bill Nye

I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.

~ Vanity

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

~ Nelson Mandela

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

~ Adam Hamilton

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

~ Thomas Browne

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

~ Tryon Edwards

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

~ John Bradshaw

If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.

~ Justin Trudeau

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

~ Carl Jung

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

~ C. Wright Mills

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

~ Arnold H. Glasow

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

~ Lao Tzu

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

~ Ambrose Bierce

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

~ Anthony Hopkins

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

~ Lucille Roybal-Allard

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

~ Will Self

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

~ William Hague

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

~ Oswald Chambers

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

~ Christopher Morley