299 Quotes About Shadows

disclaimer:This is a work of nonfiction, but it is also full of dreams, speculations, and shadows. Many names have been changed.

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

The room was dull now, and meaningless, with the young ladies gone from it. They were both lovely, almost luminous. And Sarah was, she knew, as she slipped along the servants' corridor, and then up the stairs to the attic to hang her her new dress on the rail, just one of the many shadows that ebbed and tugged at the edges of the light.

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find a shadow in the night? I guess that’s why so many people are so obsessed with the idea of bringing things to the light…to the clear, so to speak.

I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love the light much more than ever before!

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamp-light. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.

We often walk without knowing the beautiful and the mysterious art created behind us by our shadows.

. . .after the shadows comes light.