Quotessence
Home / Topics / Shadow Quotes

Shadow Quotes

Browse 2974 quotes about Shadow.

Related topics

LightIfsMenWorldCastsDarkPeopleSunKnowsThinkingWayLongEyeDreamLooksMindNightHeartSoulWantFallDarknessStillsMayBehindsMomentsFacesLight And ShadowLittlesSaidFeelsSubstanceMadeEarthPastRealityGivingSelfLyingRealTryingDoubtPersonsBlackBodyWellsBelieveEndsLifeShouldTwoWalksTreeSeemsMeanMemoriesDoeFormHandsSometimesMovingSidesHas BeensNeedsCloudsEvilKindTurnsWallHumansLostRunningStarsStoriesWaterWindArtBigsI CanJoyMoonWholeYearsBookShiningChildrenExistenceFirstsLife IsLoveNamesPainMorningRoomsBeautifulShadow Of DeathSleepTogetherWritingColormore

Shadow Quotes

“I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice.”

MeanKidsSchoolChoicesFoundFeltDarkRaceHonestBrotherCreaturesHigh SchoolShadowIntelligentSorryLike MeMy BrotherLoyalDevotedFreshmanFurry
Author:Roger Zelazny
Create image

“And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.”

MenMadeSelfWholePainUsedNamesLostDarkKnowingShadowHatredSakeRuinsPossessedTrue SelfGed
Book:A Wizard of Earthsea
Create image

“At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.”

FirstsTwoLightTogetherGirlBlackDarkSpaceWhitePerfectCitiesWindHairShadowDressesDawnButterflyMidnightVioletPurpleBlondeMothsPoniesRantRaveDark Hair
Author:Francesca Lia Block
Create image

“Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it”

TryingRealLightFormOrderSpiritualityFightingEvilCausesIgnoranceEmotionalShadowShiningDisappearResistanceSubstanceStampsSpiritual AwarenessLight And Shadow
Book:Creative Visualization - 40th Anniversary Edition: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life
Create image

“Most of them... most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc says it's fine, nothing to worry about. Why dwell on it? But some people, they just can't let it go... Some people drink themselves out of school trying to find it again, trolling through bars where the shadows are so greasy they leave trails on the walls, just to find a way in, a way through. Some people forget too that you're supposed to stop sleeping, you're supposed to have a life in the sun.”

PeopleThinkingWayTryingDreamSchoolSleepForgetWorrySunFiguresWallFineDrinkShadowBarsTrailsLet It GoBad Dream
Author:Catherynne M. Valente
Create image

“Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.”

ThinkingLongTwoEndsWould BeEyeHalfTeamShapesMoonCreaturesLimitsShadowDiedSizeEdgesBoundariesGentleBordersHorizonTrollBlurryLong ShadowsHalf MoonPatrolling
Book:The God of Small Things
Create image

“All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.”

MenMayMatterSeemsLastsFallSunImagineMissingOne DayMountainShadowRainAll ThingsBreathsShiningSignificantStreams
Book:Princeps' Fury
Create image

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”

PeopleIfsWantLooksLightEarthEvilEnjoyFantasyTreeStupidShadowCastsNakedLiving ThingsPonderingYou Re StupidMargaritaPonder This
Author:Mikhail Bulgakov
Create image

“You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”

WayLifeFeelsLooksEyeOrderWalksSpringReflectionShadowDearSmokeAtmosphereChairsDripping
Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Create image

“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.”

FirstsLooksHandsLastsDiesWaitingBlackBornVisionDarknessJourneyMinutesThousandElementsHappeningsShadowHorseConstantProfoundStrangerFlightClarityReachingShockReach OutBoresLast TimeGatheringDoorwaysEclipseClutchFirsts And LastsBends In The RoadElements Of Life
Author:Victor Hugo
Create image

“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.”

WorldTryingMindHandsLightFormEvilLostBlackAbilityWhiteForeverJudgingStandardsIllusionShadowIdealsAimGood And EvilMapsGrayShadeBlack And WhiteAspireRelevanceFaeLoftyPlaces In The WorldIntangibleShades Of Gray
Book:Bloodfever: Fever Series
Create image

“Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volcanoes stark and biscuit-colored against the sky. I could smell pinion trees, wet sage, woodsmoke, cattle in the pastures, and creek water that had melted from snow. I could smell the way the country probably was when it was only a dream in the mind of God.”

WayMindCountryDreamWaterSunTreeBloodSkyShadowSmellSnowHillsBrokeWetSageCountrysideStarksCattleVolcanoesPasturesBiscuitsCreeksCones
Book:Jesus Out to Sea: Stories
Create image

“It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter's hypothetical soul. That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds.”

HeartSoulNightVoiceDarkSkyCarCallingMoonLowsShadowEmptyEarsDearMonstersFatsJoyfulPassengersPlaygroundsLuciferTropicalDodgeHypotheticalRascalsBackseat
Book:Dearly Devoted Dexter
Create image

“Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.”

IfsThinkingMenWayRealMatterMoralSunEventsSourceShadowRoundsCastsIntuitionAll TimeWheelsBackwardsCavesFragments
Author:S.M. Stirling
Create image

“Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name.”

HeartSelfStatesBodyTodayNamesStarsImagineShadowTongueTinyShouldersSensationsEasternChillCrossingsNoonBananasEnchantedStrawberriesEnchanted Places
Book:Love, Stargirl
Create image

“I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looking at me with eyes gone soft and dark. "Christ, Claire, ye were so beautiful, there on the stair, wi' your hair down and the shadow of your body with the light behind ye…." He shook his head slowly. "I did think I should die, if I didna have ye," he said softly. "Just then.”

IfsThinkingShouldSaidBodyLightEyeBeautifulDiesForceChristDarkBehindsGoneHairShadowDown AndYour BodyStairsClaire
Book:The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Create image

“Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.”

AsksGrowsTreeWindOffersSafeShadowRootsGreenPlantRoundsDelightRuinsDecayLightningJaneLightingVigorousPropsFreshnessOrchardChestnutsRochester
Author:Charlotte Bronte
Create image

“You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted. ... I hate what you just did, Rand,' Nynaeve snarled. 'No, "Hate" isn't strong enough. I loathe what you've done. What has happened to you?' Test him!' Rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.”

IfsFirstsSaidDoneEnoughHateStrongVoiceMy OwnSinHappenedDangerousShadowTestsI HateDetermineAlsExhaustedStrong EnoughDamnationLoatheCondemningNo Hate
Author:Brandon Sanderson
Create image

“How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.”

IfsMindSaidBookNightHouseLeftFeltLinesDarkPerfectPaperShadowMovedFollowingSecureWanderSatTwilightDesksPencilsAccordFidelityMake OutDark Night
Book:Austerlitz
Create image