Shadows Quotes

“Shadows were largest just before sunset, but lost their power when night inevitably fell. For Shadows don't exist in the dark.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“The Suli believe that when we do wrong, we give life to our shadows. Every sin makes the shadow stronger, until eventually the shadow is stronger than you."
"If that were true, my shadow would have put Ketterdam in permanent night."
"Maybe," Inej said, turning her dark gaze to his. "Or maybe you're someone else's shadow.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Everything casts a shadow," he begins. "Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Don't believe the truths told to you by the light. The brightness you're used to casts the most vicious of shadows.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“The only way you'll hurt my feelings is hurting my friends', because that's when you'll see the real me come from the shadows.”
― Aurora

“He tipped his head up. "Do you think that stars have shadows?"
She followed his gaze. They were close enough to Springfield for light pollution to dull the night skies, but galaxies still spangled above them. The moon had marched nearly to the end of her night, ready to stagger to her own bed at dawn.
"I guess if there's some brighter star," she said, thinking of lying on the couch months ago, a deep-voiced man explaining the universe on her television while she tried to convince herself to apply for a new job. "Like the kind that's about to become a black hole. Don't they flare first?"
Vince nodded. "Quasars. They flare as they're dying. I guess that would give any other star nearby a shadow.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night

“Your shadow has an advantage over you, your shadow will live longer than you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Shadows are the ones who rejoice the most at the sunrise, because there is no shadow in the darkness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I dreamed of shadows that night, vast shadows that blotted out the sun, and I called out to them in my desperation, but they did not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“I long for all I’ve lost and the witch old woman tells me that the shadows which go away always return.”
― Maria Polydouri

“I desire peace, but dread to face the shadows in order to find it. Vulnerability is difficult. It's as fragile as shards. It takes forever to piece back together but only seconds to destroy.”
― David Grinnell, Ashes

“The student asked: Master, what would you do if your shadow suddenly left you? Were you afraid? The master replied: No! I would rejoice for my shadow that he was finally freed from imitating me!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The sun was soft honey and rose colored along the horizon; the old trees were deep black silhouettes against it, with long purple shadows sliding out from their earth-slippered feet.”
― Marti Healy, The Secret Child

“Never be disappointed and never lose your hope and fortitude when all that you see around is only shadows. Because if there are shadows, there must also be sources of light nearby. Find them, take them with you to illuminate your trail and make shadows disappear!”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“Outside, the wind was growing louder—now the trees beyond the window, like mourners, bent beneath the fury of the storm, and against the window, tracks of rain spilled sideways like lead. Dr. Stein walked to the window and pushed it up, old wood creaking and water blowing in onto his skin, cold. The darkness held only shadows but still he stared into it. He leaned his head out further, gripping tightly to the sill and pulling in. When he closed the window, the sudden barrier was jarring; he ran his fingers through his wet hair once and watched the rainbow sides of droplets falling.”
― Sara Barkat, The Shivering Ground & Other Stories

“She bid him farewell,
And scrutinized his silhouette,
That slowly faded in the shadows.
She whispered,
"Au-revoir"
To the nocturnal mist.”
― Ruqayya Shaheed Khan

“Unlike their owners, shadows are never hostile to each other, and when they get the chance, the two shadows immediately merge with the other!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The shadow that walks in front of its owner starts to think of himself as a great guide!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Tanizaki’s subject requires the shadowy style in which he treats it”
― Thomas J. Harper, In Praise of Shadows

“If there is only shadow on a theatre stage, that play will be boring; if there is only light on a theatre stage, that play will be boring! What makes the play interesting is the struggle of shadows and lights with each other!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As the sun goes down, the shadows grow, but the shadows think the sun is setting because they themselves are growing!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Your shadow either moves when you move, or when the light moves. If neither is moving but your shadow is still moving then your mind must be moving!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Shadows love sunsets the most, and of all sunsets, they love sunsets in the desert the most!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Funny thing about shadows. They made even the smallest things into monsters or fairies or whatever folks wanted.”
― Ashley Clark, The Dress Shop on King Street

“Truth be told, she still preferred to lve life in the shadows, but duty called.”
― Jen Calonita, Disney Frozen: Let It Go

“Truth be told, she’d been longing to find a partner, someone to soften the shadow-stained loneliness that crept in a little more with every year.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Constitution Check

“There's a feeling within me, begging me to confront and overcome this defeat. But then there are the louder voices creeping in from the shadows of my memory.”
― Kristina Smeriglio, Tales We Tell The Sky

“No matter how old you get, your shadow is always younger than you, because he doesn't have the wrinkles that you have on your body!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“But the more I sat still and dug into my inner well of thoughts and shadows, the more I felt a guilty and painful twang within me.”
― Nick Oliveri, Monsters in My Mind

“The fallen angel has freed himself from a thousand-year-old imprisonment and provides the reader with a super-observer play of the known and unknown spaces and the shadows of physical and subtle realities we construct in our minds to perceive and transact with what we call reality.”
― Rajinder Jhol, Shine