Shadow Quotes

Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.

Ben Loory
- Men
- Dark
- Shadow
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

George Washington Cable
- Shadow
- Land
- Afternoon

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

William Butler Yeats
I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

Cecelia Ahern
- Dark
- Shadow
What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.

Michel Foucault
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Thomas Carlyle
- Evil
- Shadow
- Opposed
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no more than a shadow or an echo behind some poem. Other times it will be more manifest. I try to write myself into articulations of half-felt, half-known feelings, without program. I'm always working toward getting my world and, hopefully, the world outside of me into a version that makes sense of it. Viciousness requires the same precision as love does.

Stephen Dunn
- World
- Writing
- Trying
Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows

Helen Keller
- Thinking
- Heart
- Sunshine