Top 100 My Shadow Quotes
#1. A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it's my rebirth in darkness.
Munia Khan
#2. I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.
Sadegh Hedayat
#3. I love my shadow, this dark side of me that had my same restless nature.
Amy Tan
#5. Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#6. I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.
Jandy Nelson
#7. I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.
J.M. Barrie
#8. I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Jeff Wheeler
#9. The cicadas pierce the air with their searing one-note calls; dust eddies across the roads; from the weedy patches at the verges, grasshoppers whir. The leaves of the maples hang from their branches like limp gloves; on the sidewalk my shadow crackles.
Margaret Atwood
#10. I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
Confucius
#11. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.
Herman Melville
#12. In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade ... Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
Theodore Roethke
#13. To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
Brennan Manning
#14. I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.
Jaeda DeWalt
#15. You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons." - Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon
Lou Anders
#16. And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
Robert Bridges
#17. I know you don't want to be me. But I'd hate for you to ever feel like you're in my shadow. You're not and you never will be. You are awesome, and there is some kind of amazing future waiting for you.
Gwenda Bond
#18. THERE ARE THOSE WHO COME UPON A CHOICE, A CHANCE, AND TREMBLE AND FEAR - WHY SHOULD I ALLOW THEM IN MY SHADOW?
Robert Jackson Bennett
#19. Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.
Mary Shelley
#20. Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
Robert Breault
#21. My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself ...
Munia Khan
#22. In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
Robert Breault
#23. The look on your face is priceless. You can't decide if you want to go 'oh poor baby' or spit on my shadow."
"Sounds about right," Ash admitted.
Jesse Hajicek
#24. I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.
Hans Christian Andersen
#25. I imagined him standing there looking at my shadow or over my shoulder and could only promise my soul this. That he was with someone more suitable now.
Abigail George
#26. Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.
Allison Mackie
#27. Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.
William Shakespeare
#28. You're the twinkling light in my eye. You're my shadow always protecting me. You've always got my back, and I love you for that
Briana Evigan
#29. The grass was buzzing in the moonlight where my shadow walked on the grass.
William Faulkner
#30. But I look up high to see only the light,
And never look down to see my shadow.
This is wisdom which man must learn.
- Song Of The Flower XXIII
Kahlil Gibran
#31. Only evil of my shadow is my enemy,well die of darkness of life!
Tom Clancy
#33. Where'e're I go, my Soul shall stay with thee:
'Tis but my Shadow I take away ...
John Dryden
#34. 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
#35. Someone, and no matter where, collects the pieces of my shadow.
Claude Esteban
#36. Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
Robert Breault
#37. My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)
Crazy Horse
#38. Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue
Billy Rose
#39. I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did she make of us? I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuade ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?
Diane Setterfield
#40. Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone would choke her to death so I could get ahold of her and choke her some more.
Christopher Pike
#41. I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.
Wallace Stevens
#42. Everyone has a temptation; a weakness that they would yield to. Mine is you. Not only you, but your love. For your love is unique. For you are the other half of my soul. I feel you, even when you are not there. It's like a shadow. You are my shadow. Your love follows me every step I tread.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#43. I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him.
Rodney Atkins
#44. I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.
Sandra Bernhard
#45. Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.
Anna Akhmatova
#46. I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.
Malcolm Lowry
#47. She grumbled, she said sarcastically that men place such an enormous importance on fucking, she laughed: not Marcello - although even he doesn't joke - but Michele, who went crazy, he's been obsessed with me for a long time, and even runs after the shadow of my shadow.
Elena Ferrante
#49. Like a mountain path that ends at a cliff
I travel along the edge of your thoughts,
and my shadow falls from your white forehead,
my shadow shatters, and I gather the pieces
and go with no body, groping my way
Octavio Paz
#50. I'm looking for you
in the bare corridor
where my shadow is the only passerby
harmonizing an unsettling whisper:
echoed through my chiming thoughts
From the poem 'Looking For You
Munia Khan
#51. Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.
Li Bai
#52. If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.
Bill Shorten
#53. I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don't want to lose that freedom
not again. I can't go backward. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.
Tahereh Mafi
#54. To lose such an important listener in life is like losing my shadow. With no shadow, does a person truly exist under the sun? With no listener, does a person really have a voice? Silence means so many things to human beings. Some of them are unbearable.
Reeve Lindbergh
#56. It's strange watching him leave. Like watching my shadow depart and realizing its destiny may be separate from mine.
Pierce Brown
#57. I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.
Angela Carter
#58. I love to chase my shadow to feel how it rests in the dark.
Munia Khan
#59. The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.
Sue Grafton
#60. I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley's Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this!
Grady Hendrix
#61. Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules ... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
Brent Weeks
#62.
Why I, in this weak piping time of piece,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun
And descant on my own deformity :
...
William Shakespeare
#63. My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.
Curtis Jackson
#64. No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.'
-Rand
Robert Jordan
#66. Search as you might, you will never know the clarity of distance without me. Still you can't say I didn't try,' my shadow says, then pauses. 'I loved you.
Haruki Murakami
#67. Cause me physical pain. I was burning inside. Nothing and nobody could ease the pain. I became a gray figure in the corridors. My shadow merged with the walls. Days fell off the calendar like dead leaves.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#68. I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.
Dov Davidoff
#69. My shadow is only half of what it should be."
"Everyone has their shortcomings.
Haruki Murakami
#70. My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
Gary Busey
#71. Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When i produce from this place of truth, the results transform both creator and beholder.
Jaeda DeWalt
#73. I caught a glimpse of my shadow today. It's usually so hard to see because it always hides behind me. It's so much easier to see everyone else's.
Damien Echols
#74. He stepped on my shadow. I could not walk. And then I could not breathe. I did not know what had happened until it happened. It was like trying to stop the rain.
Jennifer Clement
#75. Sometimes I just get tired. I get headaches, and I just lose track. I mean, it's like which is me and which is the role? Where's the line between me and my shadow?
Haruki Murakami
#77. I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.
Robert E.Lee
#79. My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors
And trying to convince my shadow that I'm someone worth following
Rudy Francisco
#80. Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave.
Vaddey Ratner
#81. He clasped his hands to his ears as if he would tear his very brain out!" A sample line from Shadow my psychological/horror compared to Poe!
C.S. Dixon
#82. I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
Rosamund Lupton
#83. For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.'s - I didn't see any of that coming until it happened.
Janet Yellen
#84. I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.
Bill Plympton
#85. Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?"
"No," said Dagny, "I don't.
Ayn Rand
#86. By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.
Steve Erickson
#87. If you insist on standing in such a state of undress, it is your shadow that will have to get out of my way.
Meg Hennessy
#88. They say some people ' cast a thin shadow', a turn of phrase that fitted my father like a glove. Too weak, too kind, he couldn't even say goodbye to my mother and me when he left. Weak and pathetic, pathetic and sad - that Dad.
Rika Yokomori
#89. I felt her come by later, as I was dozing off. Her standing, by my bed. The depth of shadow of a person felt behind closed eyelids.
Aimee Bender
#90. A shadow strolled past the car, indifferent to our curbside melodrama. This was my second time imperiled in a a parked vehicle in the space of three hours. I wondered what goonish spectacles I'd overlooked in my own career as a pavement walker.
Jonathan Lethem
#91. your shadow has been over me for my whole life.
Stephen King
#92. 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
#93. A truth was being revealed to me: that I had always tried to attach myself to the light of other people, that I had never had any light of my own. I experienced myself as a kind of shadow.
Zadie Smith
#94. Loneliness of heart
In the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear ...
M.I. Ghostwriter
#95. Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.
Marcel Duchamp
#96. So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.
Marina Keegan
#97. I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]
Johannes Kepler
#98. Before this peculiar experience I have no distinct memory of having recognized any vital bond between myself and my own shadow. I never gave it an afterthought.
Zitkala-Sa
#99. My Templeton is to Cooperstown as a shadow is to the tree that spawned it; an outline that takes texture from the ground it falls on.
Lauren Groff
#100. I hate the very noise of troublous man
Who did and does me all the harm he can.
Free from the world I would a prisoner be
And my own shadow all my company.
John Clare
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