440 Quotes About Shadow

Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

If we are able to convey ‘meaning’ to things and to actions, we may dominate part of the obscure world of ignorance. When we try to give sense to our life, we can come to ‘awareness’ and fill some of the numerous black holes of witlessness in our thinking. We may, then, defy and dam the existential void, down the stretch. ("Not without my shadow")

After that he had more or less stopped reading. You could not trust fiction. What good were books, if they couldn't protect you from something like that?

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

As light splinters into darkness, new thoughts may take over in the mind and allow upbeat views to gain power. Thus and so, thoughtfulness readily opens a blistering sky in the faltering shadow of unawareness. ("Absence of Desire")

Stop living in the shadows of another. You've been given everything needed to live a purposed filled life. Don't be a second rate version of yourself.

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.