Introduction:
Welcome to a contemplative journey into the enigmatic world of shadows. Within the intricate dance of light and darkness lies a realm of profound symbolism and reflection, where the ephemeral outlines cast by everyday objects evoke deep emotions and thoughts. From the playful interplay of sunbeams dappling through leaves to the haunting silhouettes stretching across desolate landscapes, shadows possess a captivating allure that has fascinated humanity since time immemorial.
In literature, art, and philosophy, shadows serve as potent metaphors for the hidden aspects of the human psyche, the transient nature of existence, and the interplay between good and evil. They shroud mysteries yet to be uncovered, hint at the depths of the subconscious, and invite introspection into the dualities of life. Join us on this exploration of shadows, where words and imagery intertwine to illuminate the profound truths they conceal beneath their veils.
And now, without further ado, immerse yourself in a collection of evocative quotes that delve into the essence of shadows. Let these words inspire your creativity, provoke introspection, or simply serve as poignant reminders of the beauty and complexity found within the realm of darkness.
For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It’s very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now. Denis Villeneuve
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. Thomas Huxley
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still. John Fletcher
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. Hubert H. Humphrey
It’s important to know that if you are dealing with shadows. Conrad Hall
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. Annie Besant
It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows. Peter Baynham
I’m always shy in front of an audience, so I’m always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don’t like the front, the adulation. Bill Wyman
The reason I wanted to play guitar was because I saw Buddy Holly and then our own homegrown Shadows on TV in 1957 or ’58. I wanted to learn to play guitar so I could do what they did and be in a band. Peter Frampton
One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. Lady Randolph Churchill
Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people… have to walk out of the shadows. Albert Maltz
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. Georges Duhamel
A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows – faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double. Jennifer Tilly
We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable. Rick Tumlinson
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. Ray Bradbury
One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it’s dependent on nothing else other than a story. David Selby
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. Harriet Ann Jacobs
A child can escape the shadows. Steve Largent
Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That’s the reality of existence. Sebastian Lelio
Louder Than Bombs’ shows our inner shadows. J-Hope
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. Joseph Joubert
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work. Nikola Tesla
‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice”s story is one of fate and growth. Hidetaka Miyazaki
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. Tony Iommi
So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them. Thomas Hooker
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life. Eavan Boland
I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory. Ezra Taft Benson
Man is a substance clad in shadows. John Sterling
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. William Butler Yeats
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows. Kate Chopin
The movie wasn’t really derived from Dark Shadows – they developed a whole new script for that particular one. David Selby
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Charles Dickens
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving! O. Henry
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato’s cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don’t know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? Desiderius Erasmus
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler. Friedrich Nietzsche
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart. Barack Obama
The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion. Paramahansa Yogananda
To contemplate is to look at shadows. Victor Hugo
Listening to my dad playing guitar along to ‘Sleepwalk’ by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music. Kevin Parker
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. Lorna Luft
To think of shadows is a serious thing. Victor Hugo
We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then. Jessie Buckley
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life. Kay Granger
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. Helena Blavatsky
When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home… piece of cake. James Marsters
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assisi
I’ll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I’ll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you’re sure that I’m the one. Gary Allan
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life’s lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. Joshua Sylvester
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don’t pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow. Gwen John
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world – which have existed for 30,000 years! – continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows. Carlos Fuentes
News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors… it’s an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job. Conrad Hall
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. William Butler Yeats
For transgender kids who are struggling, I want them to know they’re not alone. They shouldn’t be afraid to step out of their shadows. Jazz Jennings
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. Elie Wiesel
America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about. Barack Obama
Growing up, my parents had this little fish and chips restaurant in Anaheim in the shadows of Disneyland, and they didn’t close until 9 P.M. As a family, we didn’t eat dinner until 10 P.M., and we would watch the original Star Trek every night at 11. Justin Lin
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt
Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in. Jonathan Frid
Shadows sometimes people don’t see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. David Hockney
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. Georg Trakl
Like many of you, I’ve always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series ‘Dark Shadows,’ which I followed avidly as a kid. Bill Condon
We’ve learned to embrace our own physical shadows by leaning on each other and Once to find motivation and energy to keep our heads up and stay healthy. Dahyun
But it’s amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children. Armistead Maupin
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you. Karen Salmansohn
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. Ginny Brown-Waite
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. Martha Beck
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. Amitabh Bachchan
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
There’s no need for shadows when the Light has come, when the Star and the Sun have appeared – and Christ is both – bringing light to day and night. Paul Washer
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows – the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece. Ernie Pyle
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. Paulo Coelho
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? Christopher Marlowe
I wear my shadows where they’re harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I’m travelling toward light. Bruce Cockburn
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition – even to close family, friends or co-workers – because there’s still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll. Lynda Resnick
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort – the intense self-conscious effort – to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange. Eavan Boland
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. Grandma Moses
I feel 95 per cent of Indian boys are mama’s boys and a few of them couldn’t come out of their mother’s shadows. Salman Khan is one of them. I feel one of the reasons he is unable to find a soul mate is he looks for his mother in every girl. Farah Khan
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. Jean Racine
There’s something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what’s lurking in them. Richard O’Brien
Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That’s 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about. Steve Israel
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. Junichiro Tanizaki
It’s true that there was a lot of influence from ‘Tenchu.’ We even pondered making ‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice’ a part of the ‘Tenchu’ series at first. Hidetaka Miyazaki
You can disguise any set with lights and shadows. Allan Dwan
Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings. George MacDonald
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. Gaston Bachelard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke
If you don’t deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society. Denis Villeneuve
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows. Lorna Luft
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Unknown
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. Roger Waters
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. John Philip Sousa
I’ll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours. Thayer David
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them. Helena Blavatsky
I think of myself… as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. Louis L’Amour
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. Blaise Pascal
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend. William Cowper
Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that’s not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. Jesse Jackson
Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin