Quotes About Shadow And Light

#1. For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born..

Jose Saramago

#2. Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light, neither one can exist without the other.

Wai Lan Yuen

#3. When you see the world today, remember that every color, every shade, every shape, shadow and light has been uniquely crafted by the Goddess. Never forget this. Day

Mata Enzer

#4. Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled ... in a unique and inimitable way.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Each of us has an equal amount of Shadow and Light buried in our souls. What makes us different is how much Shadow we choose to suppress, and how much Light we choose to show.

Taylor Chackowsky

#6. My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

Kathryn V. White

#7. We, too, are shadow and light. We are not supposed to know this, or be all these different facets of humanity, bright and dark. We are raised to be bright and shiny, but there is meaning in the acceptance of our dusky and dappled side, and also in defiance.

Anne Lamott

#8. Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

Pierre Coupey

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?

Jay Woodman

#12. Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God; face the brighter light and cast behind the dark shadows!

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. 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

#14. Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

Pindar

#15. Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.

Michael Josephson

#16. In life, you will find two things. The quiet beauty of Darkness, and the bright songs of Light. The choice is yours to decide which will be you, and which will be your shadow.

Taylor Chackowsky

#17. There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. ( ... ) How nothing touched me. And I touched nothing. How I'd lost track of what mattered. How I worked like a fool for things that didn't. How it didn't make a difference either way.

Haruki Murakami

#18. We who are so lucky as to be born into the light - who see it every day and never think about it, we're blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.

L.J.Smith

#19. There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.

Deepak Chopra

#20. There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,
that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

Joseph Addison

#21. Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

Benjamin West

#22. My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

Ruth Bernhard

#23. An important memory is like a gravitational field
the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

Rikki Ducornet

#24. 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.

Billy Graham

#25. If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself ... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

#26. To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?

Terry Tempest Williams

#27. 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

#28. I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#29. Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#30. And then like thunder broke the frost,
The chill wall fell, and morrowless
Immortal maid and man embraced,
Their light and shadow mingling.

Alison Croggon

#31. SUNLIGHT SEEPED THROUGH the thickly-bunched leaves of the towering kirstal trees, the clearing beneath them riddled with chaotic patches of brilliant light and gray shadow.

Mickey Zucker Reichert

#32. The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

#33. I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#34. A wizard's power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#35. Go fast, Plain Kate, and travel light
Learn to walk the shadowy night
Without a shadow, flee from light
Become a shadow, truly

Erin Bow

#36. And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.

Pope Francis

#37. In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally - it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.

Edouard Manet

#38. But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

George MacDonald

#39. Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

Robert Jordan

#40. Activating our light and our full potential requires that we embrace our shadow. Realizing our wholeness requires us to become big enough to hold our brokenness.

Derek Rydall

#41. Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow
now old and broken , creaking in the breeze
turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.

Ted Kooser

#42. The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things ...

Daniel H. Pink

#43. This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

Marilynne Robinson

#44. War and tooth enameled
salted lemon childhoods
All colors run, none of us solid
Don't look for shadow behind me
I carry it within
I live cycles of light and darkness

Suheir Hammad

#45. Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

Bruno Dumont

#46. The clouds to the south had cleared, and the sun appeared, gradually pushing shadow down the hills, spreading light like syrup over the brown slopes and the forests down to the lake.

Lucy Beckett

#47. I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.

Haruki Murakami

#48. 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

#49. In the shadow my father has cast over my entire life, you are the only light I can see anymore. And, whatever the cost, I refuse to let that light be extinguished

Morgan Rhodes

#50. The darkness of the world is but a shadow, but there is light that causes the shadow.

John Hudson Tiner

#51. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#52. Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#53. To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

George R R Martin

#54. We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

R.C. Sproul

#55. As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.

Felix Adler

#56. May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns ... and may the moonshadow never fall on you ...

Robert Fanney

#57. We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

Henry David Thoreau

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Turn and face the Light, and all you see is Brightness. Turn and face Shadow, and all of Life will appear before you.

Stan Sudan

#61. I don't analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it--the sweet and sad and raw and bright together.
Poetry is that, the weaving of light-shadow. Making words from the unwordable.

Jacob Nordby

#62. -a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow.

Barbara Sleigh

#63. Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

Diane Ackerman

#64. When I work with Women of Faith, I probably talk to anything from 15- to 20,000 women a weekend. They are dying to hear somebody tell their story out loud and not self-combust, to bring all the secrets out of the shadow into Gods light.

Sheila Walsh

#65. So his life has flowed
From its mysterious urn a sacred stream,
In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure
Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill
May hover round its surface, glides in light,
And takes no shadow from them.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

#66. A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow plane, paint the lights cool and the shadows warm, and in the sunlight plane, paint the lights warm and shadows cool.

Harvey Dunn

#67. When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed.

Volkmar Wentzel

#68. Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet

Aftab Alam

#69. The sun was clear and diaphanous like white win. Its light barely touched the moving figures, gave them no shadow, no relief: faces and hands made spots of pale gold.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#70. 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

#71. It is hard to lift up your own misfortune. To be at once the viewer and the viewed. To be both above and below. The one below is a spot, a shadow ... To consider your own person in the light of eternity (read: in the light of death). To rise into the air. The world from a bird's-eye view.

Danilo Kis

#72. When it's light versus dark, that doesn't matter. One shadow in a brightly lit room goes unnoticed, but shine a ray of light into even the darkest corner ... and everything changes.

Jeaniene Frost

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

Paul Cezanne

#74. I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?

Steve Martin

#75. No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

Plato

#76. The soul seeks growth; as Truth, as Life, as Light, is in itself. God is, and so is life, light, truth, hope, love. And those that abide in same, grow. Those that abide in the shadow of the night, or the conditions that become or make for the fruits of these, do not grow.

Edgar Cayce

#77. It was all real and blazing with detail.
But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.

Laura Whitcomb

#78. Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

Annie Baker

#79. Every time I am in the dark and a bit of light falls on me, I see a bit of you in my shadows. There is always a bit of you in every song I hear, in every thought I conceive, in every rain that I drench in, in every star that I stare at in the sky every night and in every breeze that touches me.

Akshay Vasu

#80. What is a shadow? It is the self without a face or a name, all outline and no feature, the self on the verge of being erased. It is the incidental child of matter and light. Look how it spreads itself on the ground, weary but weightless, unable to leave a trace.

Conchitina Cruz

#81. To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#82. Remember to take in and harvest light yet also allow yourself to cast shadows where needed, like a tree. Then, in return, your shadow will support your light.

Iva Kenaz

#83. And so the very institution we thought would bring the most light to the world has instead drowned it in shadows, and claimed that shadow as full sun. And we, poor blind creatures, have believed the lie. It

Rachel Caine

#84. To behold the day-break!
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate.

Walt Whitman

#85. Tagore's direct narrative prose is clear water. At times the light changes over it, a shadow passes, and when night falls the water too takes on night's opacity.

Sharmistha Mohanty

#86. My sister's looking off to the side so half her face is in shadow and her smile is neatly cut in half. It's like one of those Greek tragedy masks in a textbook that's half one idea and half the opposite. Light and dark. Hope and despair. Laughter and sadness. Trust and loneliness.

Haruki Murakami

#87. They who from birth have had no other speech than the trembling of their lips learn a language of the eyes, endless in expression, deep as the sea, clear as the heavens, wherein play dawn and sunset, light and shadow. The dumb have a lonely grandeur like Nature's own. Wherefore

Rabindranath Tagore

#88. I am the shadow of what we were, and while there is light we exist.

Luis Sepulveda

#89. My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

Frances Harper

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

Susan W. Krebs

#91. Some dry leaf blows into a campfire well-stoked and drawing well. What follows? That leaf catches at once, swiftly is consumed, a shadow withering briefly in the fierce light, and thereafter little remains, not cinder and ash so much as smudges of char.

Kai Ashante Wilson

#92. You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.

Na'ama Yehuda

#93. I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow ...
Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light
... and are you going to stay the night?

Cat Stevens

#94. Love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow ...

Tennessee Williams

#95. A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

Jim DeMint

#96. Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

Libba Bray

#97. 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

#98. This is reality, whether you like it or not
all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

Willa Cather

#99. 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

#100. Hug your children ... Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.

Seth Grahame-Smith