Top 100 Quotes About Our Shadows
#1. We are linked by our shadows, not by our light.
Jun Mochizuki
#2. Lightning flickered through the windows that wouldn't release us and made monsters of our shadows against the wall.
Michelle Hodkin
#3. The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.
Ishmael Beah
#4. We walked in wisdom with our shadows, in search of the dead part of ourselves, which would be our shelter.
Yvonne Vera
#5. We often walk without knowing the beautiful and the mysterious art created behind us by our shadows.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. We move like a platoon of silhouettes
balancing sledge hammers on our heads,
unaware our shadows have untied
from us, wandered off
& gotten lost.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#7. Let the new faces play what tricks they will
In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,
Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,
The living seem more shadowy than they.
William Butler Yeats
#8. Our shadows are our histories. We drag them everywhere.
Anthony Doerr
#9. Or more accurately, since we were in the plane, our shadows figured as well inside the shadow of the airplane skimming over mountain and field. Which would mean we too were imprinted into the earth.
Haruki Murakami
#10. Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.
Marcel Proust
#11. Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.
Margaret George
#12. Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.
Maralee McKee
#13. What else can we do
but garden our shadows
while far away
the universe burns and vanishes.
Andree Chedid
#15. We all must deal with our shadows the best we can. No one can conquer them for us.
Anna Lee Huber
#16. I never wanted to forget all the ways we were connected that day: By our shadows and sunlight. By pounding hearts and a starry maybe.
Natalie Lloyd
#17. AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES, our shadows grow longer. At night, in the dark, we become our shadows.
Tom Robbins
#18. The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we'd left, had seeped into the wood and stained it.
Ava Dellaira
#19. During our darkest moments on the edges of time we mostly deny compassion and hope for those who will shape our shadows into light!
Vasilios Karpos
#20. Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest
Robin Sharma
#21. Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Edward Young
#22. As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.
Robert Plant
#23. As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass.
Willa Cather
#24. False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.
John Kessel
#25. Our shadows stretched before us across the surface of the world.
Rachel Hartman
#26. We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.
Kamila Shamsie
#27. Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable sovereignties accompanied by invisible flames, invisible chains, which, coming to light, step after step, cause us to shine.
Rene Char
#28. The things we judge in others are our shadows reflected back at us.
Rachelle Chartrand
#29. Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
John Suckling
#30. When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.
Mark Strand
#31. The shadows of woman and child lie heavily athwart our own fears and nightmares and the two become translated, in the empty, indifferent place, from the local to the monumental. They are nobodies and thus become everybody.
Simon Schama
#32. If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.
Rita Dove
#33. Never met Ahhh, don't know him, don't care how big he is-if he's standing in our way? I'ma murder the son of a bitch" ~ Trez
'The Shadows' page 205
J.R. Ward
#34. Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!
Vladimir Nabokov
#35. Our politics are overrun with characters acting at the behest of shadows.
Charles M. Blow
#36. Now you know how much my love for you
burns deep in me
when I forget about our emptiness,
and deal with shadows as with solid things.
Dante Alighieri
#37. We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
Rand Paul
#38. When we're anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze and food and work and endless hours online feel like comfort, but in reality they're only casting their long shadows over our lives.
Brene Brown
#39. It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.
Haruki Murakami
#41. Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Sydney Smith
#42. How joyously the young sea-mew
Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
Whereon our little bark had thrown
A little shade, the only one;
But shadows ever man pursue.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#43. I mean, that which appears to our senses is not the fundamental truth. Things that are seen and heard and done by the flesh are mere shadows of a deeper reality.
Terry Pratchett
#44. A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see
Terry Tempest Williams
#45. You want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...
John Geddes
#46. Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties.
Sydney Smith
#47. The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
Woodrow Wilson
#48. Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away; ...
Robert Montgomery
#49. Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.
Virginia Woolf
#50. The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
Charles Dickens
#51. As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.
J.K. Rowling
#52. Damien is my anchor to this world, and I am his. But if we are going to keep each other, we have to fight the shadows of
our pasts to move forward into our future.
J. Kenner
#53. Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings
always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. Sometimes the most frightening of thoughts can be found hiding among the shadows of our own minds.
J.D. Barker
#55. If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.
Douglas Rushkoff
#56. We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#57. About half of us dissociated our abuse at the moment it happened. We lived our days not knowing it happened ... or could happen again. But every survivor has shadows of their experience following them.
Jeanne McElvaney
#58. Nate and me ... we aren't built for truces, for good times, for light jokes and giggles. We're meant for the shadows. For the dirty, ugly, secret parts of our souls, the parts we can't hide because we know each other too well.
Julie Johnson
#59. The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard
#60. The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
Madeleine L'Engle
#61. The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the past ignorance which led us into our present situation, we shall always see shadows of the past in the present.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#62. Die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Our lives are just shadows of that guiding principle.
Haruki Murakami
#63. Life [can] become unbalanced, and in the process God gets pushed to the fringes. Instead of staying at the center of our lives, Christ gradually gets relegated to the shadows. Don't let this happen to you!
Billy Graham
#64. The fire of my burning past sent odd shadows snaking ahead of us as we made our way into the storm's resurgence.
Robin Hobb
#65. If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.
Fernando Pessoa
#66. Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.
Frederick Lenz
#67. The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams.
Gene Wolfe
#68. Perhaps there is a God like firelight, but all we can see is the shadows that we cast ourselves when we walk in front of the fire. Then we see great leaping shadows and think that this is God, but really it is only our own image.
Philippa Gregory
#69. This is what they have done to us. We are afraid of our own shadows." She
Kristin Hannah
#70. Everyone has a secret, but when it is bound by shame we're forced to live within the darkest circles of our crumbling masks; unable to find the light of the coming dawn; forever locked in the shadows of our own regrets.
A.M. Hudson
#71. The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.
Brene Brown
#72. We live and learn, change and grow. Older, but not always wiser. Stronger but not necessarily smarter. Life is a dance of steps taken forward and backwards, time spent standing still, and twirling in circles as we follow our own shadows.
A.J. Compton
#73. Something in my mind, like an eye behind my eye, sees angel shapes in shadows of our lamp-lit street. As I feel for the pencil in my pocket, I know it's the Dad part of me at last seeing glints of the divine, even in the grungy pavement.
Laurel Garver
#74. Don't let the regret of the past take the better part of you,because you are a precious child of God.And our God needs you to stop living in the shadows of the past and be whole again with Him.
Rhodalyne Doku
#75. There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.
Franco Santoro
#76. Everyday, Athena. Everyday, each of us has to face a battle against our own shadows. Don't think you're any different. But this is why we have people who love us. If you can't fight, then I will.
Karen Francisco
#77. Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.
Victor Hugo
#79. Stories move in from the shadows to the limelight. And though the stage presents the drama of our powerlessness, the shadows offer the secret of our power.
Rebecca Solnit
#80. ...thus our State, which is also yours, will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good.
Plato
#81. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#82. We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same.
Sally Wiener Grotta
#83. We are all in the depths of a cave, chained by our ignorance, by our prejudices, and our weak senses reveal to us only shadows. If we try to see further, we are confused; we are unaccustomed. But we try. This is science. Scientific
Carlo Rovelli
#84. I remember our sorrows in shades,
like the gray of the shadows,
which loomed that day,
and the white in his lie
when he promised to stay.
Lang Leav
#85. I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books ... True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.
Felix J. Palma
#86. What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!
Susan Fenimore Cooper
#87. When the sunshine of God's love meets the shadows of our sorrows, the rainbow of promise appears.
Ryan Jo Summers
#88. Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. It is a good life, Hazel Grace.
John Green
#89. When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. For in those times when our hearts are in the darkest shadows, the slightest rays of hope can gleam like eternal sunshine
A.W.Chrystalis
#92. The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#93. Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
Lorna Luft
#94. It is highly unlikely that we, who can know, determine, and define the natural essences of all things surrounding us, which we are not, should ever be able to do the same for ourselves
this would be like jumping over our own shadows.
Hannah Arendt
#95. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.
Douglas Adams
#96. The shadows. They never leave you. They keep dancing
around you a bit too loud in sunlight, and then keep a lingering
presence in moonlight. But always there. Our constant
companion", he remarked.
"Not true," Sheekha replied." They leave us in our darkest
hours.
Dixy Gandhi
#97. Dearest friend, do you not see All that we perceive Only reflects and shadows forth What our eyes cannot see. Dearest friend, do you not hear In the clamor of everyday life Only the unstrung echoing fall of Jubilant harmonies. Vladimir Soloviev, Russian Gnostic and philosopher, 1892
J. Lincoln Fenn
#98. There is a town in north Ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind
I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Neil Young
#99. The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.
Terry Goodkind
#100. Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get out of our self-made cave and walk in the glorious light of God's holiness.
R.C. Sproul
