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Quotes About Shadow

Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come.
~ Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge
The shadow acts on instinct, not reason.
~ Unknown
There is absolutely nothing that can harm the shadow. Nothing. I advise you strongly not try.
~ Unknown
As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.
~ Connie Zweig
Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.
~ Anne Sexton
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
~ Arnold Glasow
Fear has a large shadow but he himself is small.
~ J. Ruth Gendler
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
Never fear shadow. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
~ Unknown
Things seemed frozen in silent attention so as not to disturb the moonlight which, duplicating and distancing each thing by extending its shadow before it, denser and more concrete than itself, had at once thinned and enlarged the landscape like a map that had been folded and was now opened out.
~ Marcel Proust
But if Mme. Sherbatoff did not look at the audience, remained in shadow, it was to try to forget that there existed a living world which she passionately desired and was unable to know
~ Marcel Proust
Someone described us as the shadow warriors.
~ Marcus Luttrell
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
~ Margaret Atwood
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
~ Margaret Atwood
But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.
~ Margaret Mahy
When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring
~ Unknown
Youth never sees its shadow till the sun's about to set: and then you wonder where the person went who you were speaking to in all your thoughts for all those years.
~ Marianne Wiggins
The little open door of each individual's inferior function is what contributes to the sum of collective evil in the world.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
Like the shadow of deathThe residue of heartbreakAlways lingers in the backgroundWith its darkness threatening to consume you
~ Nomzamo Nhlumayo
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
~ E. V. Lucas
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
~ Oswald Chambers
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
~ George Foreman