Welcome to our page dedicated to Shadow Quotes. Shadows are intriguing and symbolic elements that have captured the imagination of poets, writers, and thinkers for centuries. They represent the interplay of light and darkness, the hidden aspects of our existence, and the ever-present duality of life. In this collection, we have gathered a diverse range of quotes that delve into the profound and symbolic nature of shadows, offering insights, reflections, and poetic musings on this captivating subject.
Scroll down to explore the wisdom and creativity of individuals who have contemplated the mysteries of shadows. Whether you’re looking for inspiration for your next artistic project, searching for words to express your thoughts, or simply seeking a deeper understanding of the world around you, these shadow quotes are here to inspire and illuminate. Feel free to use them as you see fit, whether it’s for personal reflection, sharing on social media, or adding a touch of elegance with stylish fonts. Let’s delve into the enigmatic world of shadows together, and may these quotes shed light on the hidden corners of your mind.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. William Shakespeare
When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow. Adam Grant
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
I’d come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart’s little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen’s going to get squashed. Owen Hart
I think it’s so important as a woman, and especially as a minority, to lift as you climb. So having people shadow you or mentoring people – that’s important to me. Maria Taylor
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture – great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don’t see. Dan Brown
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles
My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! Angela Cartwright
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. Hilaire Belloc
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. Paul Cezanne
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
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 Kubler-Ross
I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow. Franklin Knight Lane
For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents – with women representing half of the shadow cabinet – and working together at every level of the party. Jeremy Corbyn
The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose. Daisaku Ikeda
My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids’ parties. Gary Busey
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. Jean Baudrillard
I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won. Muhammad Ali
A little man often cast a long shadow. G. M. Trevelyan
In ‘Shadow Tag,’ Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life. Alan Cheuse
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. William Blake
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
When walking through the ‘valley of shadows,’ remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. Austin O’Malley
When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore. Taylor Swift
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow. Ambrose Bierce
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? Frank Moore Colby
There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people. Stephen Hawking
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. Neil Gaiman
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. C. S. Lewis
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. Whitney Houston
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
You’re like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn’t there. Wayne Shorter
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
To light a candle is to cast a shadow. Ursula K. Le Guin
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow. Leonardo da Vinci
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not. Saint Basil
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. Andrew Weil
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. Sam Snead
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been. Richard Jefferies
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Thomas Paine
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. Thomas Browne
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. Benjamin Franklin
I didn’t want to go to Golden State. I didn’t want to go back in Steph’s shadow. Seth Curry
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed. Howard Nemerov
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. Oswald Chambers
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. Rod Serling
Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, ‘Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.’ Robert H. Schuller
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
Every daughter is a shadow of her mum. I respect that, but there’s a limit. There’s a certain line that needs to be drawn, which every mother and daughter understands. Pulkit Samrat
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity. Steven Biko
The constant in my life was me not knowing my worth, not loving me enough, not shaping my life, being a shadow of my true self. Porsha Williams
I am about as detailed as a shadow. Lynda Barry
I’m not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears. Heidi Klum
I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it – through this we can really change the world. JR
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Wendell Berry
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity. Jerome K. Jerome
Fundamentally, the solution to economic insecurity is economic prosperity – an achievable goal. But for anyone who has grown up without financial security, there’s a shadow that lies over even those who move towards independence: lack of financial literacy. Stacey Abrams
India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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
Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there’s shadow – no, not just shadow, but fullness. You’ve got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that’s real. Amy Grant
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge. Matt Blunt
I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin? John Wesley
Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. Walter Scott
When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn’t think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you. Robert Redford
Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay
In Shadow and Bone,’ Alina’s race is never specified. But that entire book is basically built on a white default. My life has never been entirely white or entirely straight, so I had to really step back and question why I’d chosen to write my first novel that way. Leigh Bardugo
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. George P. Shultz
My father was my hero, both for the physical things he could do and for the values he taught me, about honesty and standing up for what you believe in. I never felt like I was living in his shadow. Jack Hemingway
I’ve never felt like I was in my mother’s shadow. If anything, I felt like I was in her embrace. Tracee Ellis Ross
A human being is only breath and shadow. Sophocles
My view of AMD is that we have a tremendous set of technology assets, people, capability, customer relationships. We’re not going to define ourselves in somebody else’s shadow. Lisa Su
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
I define a ‘good person’ as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their ‘shadow’ – they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them. John Bradshaw
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. William Butler Yeats
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. Ingrid Newkirk
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. Pythagoras
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. Arnold H. Glasow
A people always ends by resembling its shadow. Rudyard Kipling
Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self. Andre Aciman
There is a shadow on every page. Eugene Ormandy
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat. Elizabeth Bishop
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo
On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world. Thomas Merton
One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear – you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. Max Lucado
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world. Lois Lowry
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There’s a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy. Lorraine Toussaint
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow – and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. Kenneth Clark
The future of AEW is Maxwell J. Friedman, without a shadow of a doubt. I am going to be the face of this company. At the tender age of 23… people think I’m great now? They don’t know the half of it. I mean, my career’s only just begun. Maxwell Jacob Friedman
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. Leo Tolstoy
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln
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
Men are the dreams of a shadow. Pindar
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha
