299 Quotes About Shadows

When the shadows in the sun roll on, we listen to a slow, slow song.

She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.

Be what you must, because who you are is all of us.

I remember your shadow― those faded linesbetween the cracking clouds above― strainedin hues of solitude― a simple kiss― againstthe night we forced among the stars― lockedinto places fashioned from old snapshots―

Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

To make the ‘shadow’ the tree is to try and climb something that’s always flat and constantly moving. However, it’s something from which we’ll never fall. And maybe that’s why we live in the shadow of dreams rather than living out our lives actually climbing one.

Lying in bed with his eyes open, he searched the shadows around him, trying to find some steadying, reassuring objects. But the reality was at least as threatening as the nightmares. Having swallowed up all of the familiar shapes of the furniture, the darkness took on the aspect of some unearthly challenge: within this nothingness something monstrous and unknown was surely being spawned. The room had become a kind of breeding ground for monsters.

When we walk in the sunour shadows are like barges of silence.

Hope and fury were more than a flame in her heart; they formed a scorching blaze that would burn down this Kingdom of Shadows with everything in it.