Our Own Shadow Quotes

#1. Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Carl Jung

#2. There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

Henry Miller

#4. For images, of the one kind or of the other, will come; we cannot jump off our own shadow. As

C.S. Lewis

#5. 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

#6. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#7. Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

John Hagelin

#8. What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.

Rumi

#9. that was the only way of keeping our hopes alive, by looking beyond all we were seeing around us, and the shadow of disaster that hung over us.

Michael Morpurgo

#10. If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Paul Gauguin

#11. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.

Scott Lynch

#12. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in.

Tim O'Brien

#13. It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around 'Lost.' We're going to get lots of comparisons anyway, but we need to prove, within a couple episodes, that it's not 'Lost.'"

Remi Aubuchon

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

E.B. White

#15. His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.

Kiersten Fay

#16. Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.

William Irwin Thompson

#17. Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

Cyril Connolly

#18. 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

#19. The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.

William Shakespeare

#20. The patchy starlight gives every one of his bee-sting scars its own shadow, so his face mirrors the desert landscape: bursts of scrub and rocks, miles of flat.

Lindsay Eagar

#21. You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.

C.S. Lewis

#22. O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake,
Would all their colours from the sunset take:
From something of material sublime,
Rather than shadow our own soul's day-time
In the dark void of night. For in the world
We jostle, - but my flag is not unfurl'd ...

John Keats

#23. As children we learned our shadow
is a darkness we never totally shake
until we lie down, pull the shades,
draw the curtains, shut out the world,
and turn our own light out.

B.J. Ward

#24. Life's essential harmony is within each of us. So also is life's brokenness. To be part of transformation is to look falseness in the face, to passionately name it and denounce it in our world, and at the same time to clearly identify its shadow within our own hearts and to do battle with it there.

J. Philip Newell

#25. We left home, married, had children of our own, found the seeds of meanness blooming also within us. Dad began dresssing the pole with more complexity and less discernible logic. He draped some kind of fur over it on Groundhog Day and lugged out a floodlight to ensure a shadow.

George Saunders

#26. India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#27. I want to live our own lives, make our own decision and not live in the shadow of a former life"...... We owe ourself that much.

Danielle Fuller

#28. Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else's experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

Sharon Salzberg

#29. Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.

Jon Wynne-Tyson

#30. No amount of wordy explanations will ever lead us into the nature of our own selves. The more you explain, the further it runs away from you. It is like trying to get hold of your own shadow. You run after it and it runs with you at the identical rate of speed.

D.T. Suzuki

#31. Everyone has a dark side. This is pure fact. I can see it like a shadow behind them all the time.

Suzanne Palmieri

#32. We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?

Bonnie Friedman

#33. There is a Shadow World, like our own but different, existing alongside ours but never touching. Some people call it the world of dreams, but it is as real as anything else.

L.J.Smith

#34. Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

Edward Abbey

#35. Because forcing our beliefs upon you is not just. You must give up this shadow of life on your own, not because we force you to.

Rhys Hess

#36. The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Charles Dickens

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. It's not a dream,
But the reality that makes our passion
As a lamp shadow - no - no lamp, the sun.
What the world's million lips are thirsting for
Must be substantial somewhere ...

W.B.Yeats

#40. I just wish we could move faster.' He chin-pointed to Nico. 'I don't see how this kid is going to last one more jump. How many more will it take us to get home?

Rick Riordan

#41. 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

#42. Leaf was staring down into shadow, and Thunder followed his gaze. The land dropped away into a small ravine. Moonlight pooled at the bottom, lighting a clearing ringed by bracken and trees.

Erin Hunter

#43. King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which happened to be Darcy; but nobody really notices dark shadows, even named ones. They have a habit of lurking about. People learn to ignore them after a while.

Emma Clifton

#44. If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

George Herbert

#45. If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow - sure.

James Allen

#46. A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it's my rebirth in darkness.

Munia Khan

#47. Now Kino lay in the cave entrance, his chin braced on his crossed arms, and he watched the blue shadow of the mountain move out across the brushy desert below until it reached the Gulf, and the long twilight of the shadow was over the land.

John Steinbeck

#48. What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

Kahlil Gibran

#49. 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

#50. If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water ...

J.M. Barrie

#51. Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.

Winston Graham

#52. The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.

R.S. Thomas

#53. At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,
You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.
And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,
And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

Rudyard Kipling

#54. Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

George R R Martin

#55. I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above sea level and eat a bowl of raisin bran every morning in its shadow.

Jess Riley

#56. I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

Imelda May

#57. White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.

Dieter Appelt

#58. 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

#59. He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

Michel De Montaigne

#60. I see the crown dripping blood. A storm without thunder. Shadow twisting on a bed of flames.

Victoria Aveyard

#61. 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

#62. As Sean seem determined to shadow her every move, she concluded that young boys were much like cats. They insisted on giving their company to those who most feared or distrusted them.

J.D. Robb

#63. An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Fanny Kemble

#64. Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

Dale Turner

#65. Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

Sarah Helen Whitman

#66. He was a super shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower. I liked his shadow on the street and his imprint on the sofa. I hated the smell of hair gel on his head, but I loved it on the pillow. I love the smell of losing someone.

Emma Forrest

#67. Sexual role play provides a creative platform for us to safely express certain aspects of our shadow self.

Miya Yamanouchi

#68. 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

#69. A whimsical choice, perhaps a dangerous choice, but a shadow should bear some resemblance to the shape that cast it.

Brent Weeks

#70. A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

Baden Powell De Aquino

#71. Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#72. Her soul was as cold as the air that bit through London in winter, her grief a shadow to the vengeance ...

Michelle Zink