Shadows Quotes

When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. There's nothing left worth saying.

~ Isaac Marion

There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is death. We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.

~ Courtney M. Privett

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier

~ Katherine Mcintyre

The Marquess shrugged. “I’m a shadow. I do know I am a shadow, Iago. I know most of the time. It’s only when I cannot bear how everyone looks at me down here that I make myself forget it. Shadows are the other side of yourself. I had longings to be good, even then. I was just stronger than my wanting. I’m stronger than anything, really, when I want to be.” The Marquess’s hair turned white as the snow. “Do you know, we’re right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can’t get back to. I don’t even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For your shadow, you are his shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

One night after dinner a group of us were talking about the supernatural, and one of our dinner guests said that when the electric light was invented, people began to lose the dimension of the supernatural. In the days before we could touch a switch and flood every section of the room with light, there were always shadows in the corner, shadows which moved with candlelight, with firelight; and these shadows were an outward and visible sign that things are not always what they seem; there are things which are not visible to the mortal human being; there are things beyond our ken.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

~ Markus Zusak

He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to be the man who found a way to save Judith

~ Christine Feehan

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being?

~ Nema Al-Araby

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of our being?

~ Nema Al-Araby

We are nothing but shadows Fading away Trying to hold on to This bittersweet life That we call our own...

~ Ricky Mears

Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water,Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light,Bosoming day as a laughing and radiant daughter…Here we may whisper unheard, unafraid of the night.Walking alone…was it splendor, or what, we were bound with?Deep in the time when summer lets down her hair?Shadows we loved and the patterns they covered the ground withTapestries, mystical, faint in the breathless air.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities?

~ Yoon Ha Lee

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

~ Unknown

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

~ James Shirley

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

~ Thomas Browne

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

~ Christopher Marlowe

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

~ Thomas Hooker

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

~ Junichiro Tanizaki

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

~ Karen Salmansohn

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

~ Junichiro Tanizaki

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

~ John Ruskin

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.

~ Bill Condon

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

~ Eavan Boland

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

~ William Butler Yeats

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

~ Denis Villeneuve