Shadow Quotes

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

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.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

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.

The shadows are only the darkest when the light is at its brightest.

One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

If you have a footprint, be happy, because it means that you aren't a shadow!

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.

A light here required a shadow there.

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

In our eyes the roads are endless. Two are crossroads of the shadow.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

We think not in words but in shadows of words.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it's all good.

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.