Shadow Quotes

“Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“Everything that is,casts a shadow”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.”
― Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

“Speak you too,
speak as the last,
say out your say.

Speak-
But don’t split off No from Yes.
Give your say this meaning too:
Give it the shadow.

Give it shadow enough,
Give it as much
As you know is spread round you from
Midnight to midday and midnight.

Look around:
See how things all come alive-
By death! Alive!
Speaks true who speaks shadow.

But now the place shrinks, where you stand:
Where now, shadow-stripped, where?
Climb. Grope upwards.
Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer!
Finer: a thread
The star wants to descend on:
So as to swim down beliow, down here
Where it sees itself shimmer:in the swell
Of wandering words.”
― Paul Celan

“Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope.
"Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications.
Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away.
"Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--"
"What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.”
― Brandon Mull

“It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Dialogo tra Levi Matteo e Satana (il mago Woland).

"Se vieni da me, perché non mi hai salutato, ex pubblicano?", replico Woland severo.
"Perché non voglio che tu stia in salute", rispose brusco il nuovo venuto.
"Ma dovrai rassegnarti a questo", replicò Woland e un sorriso increspò la sua bocca, "sei appena apparso sul tetto e già hai fatto una sciocchezza e ti dirò quale: è il tuo tono. Hai pronunciato le parole come se non riconoscessi le tenebre e il male. Sii tanto cortese da riflettere su questa domanda: che cosa sarebbe il tuo bene se non ci fosse il male, e come apparirebbe la terra se non ci fossero le ombre? Le ombre nascono dagli oggetti e dalle persone. Ecco l'ombra della mia spada. Ma ci sono le ombre degli alberi e degli esseri viventi. Non vorrai per caso sbucciare tutto il globo terrestre buttando via tutti gli alberi e tutto ciò che è vivo per godere della tua fantasia della nuda luce? Sei uno sciocco."
(Il maestro e Margherita)”
― Bulgakov Mikhail

“No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words of Time in this world, they can never shade the eternity lost inside you.”
― Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

“Crawling out of the flophouse
I saw the mayor stealing my junk
I doth protest, citizen's arrest
Now my body's in his trunk

Where's the shadow government when you need it?
Where's the shadow government?
It's a bad, bad world!”
― They Might Be Giants

“Questa luce, cioè la storia, è spietata; essa ha questo di strano e di divino, e cioè che quantunque sia luce, e precisamente perché è luce, mette spesso dell'ombra là dove si vedono raggi; dello stesso uomo fa due fantasmi differenti, e l'uno attacca l'altro, e ne fa giustizia, e le tenebre del despota lottano con lo splendore del capitano. Da qui, una misura più vera nell'apprezzamento definitivo dei popoli. Babilonia violata diminuisce Alessandro; Roma incatenata diminuisce Cesare; Gerusalemme uccisa diminuisce Tito. La tirannia segue il tiranno. E' una sventura per un uomo lasciare dietro di sé dell'ombra che ha la forma sua.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“La spada sibilò nell’aria cozzando contro l’altra lama. Gli occhi verde cupo di Alex incontrarono quelli scuri del suo avversario, i loro volti vicini – l’uno glabro, l’altro cerchiato da abbondanti baffi scuri –, il respiro sul viso dell’altro. Poi con uno scatto Alex si allontanò, roteò su se stessa e la lama del suo pugnale fu alla gola dell’avversario, mentre la spada bloccava quella di lui. Urla cominciarono ad alzarsi dagli spalti, riempiendo l’aria calda e rendendola ancora più soffocante. Alex non si mosse, mentre le grida la incitavano a ucciderlo. Tenne gli occhi fissi su quelli dell’uomo che aveva di fronte. I muscoli tesi sotto gli abiti attillati scuri, le braccia lucide alla luce bianca dei neon. Premette la lama del pugnale sino a far sgorgare un sottile filo purpureo di sangue dalla pelle olivastra della gola di lui. I suoi occhi la guardarono furenti.”
― Laura Randazzo, L'ombra della luna

“I alone shall know, face to face with my shadow, you dare not distinguish it from the rest of the night...”
― Rachilde, The Juggler

“Rage on, anger will,
be it day or night,
an existence that has emptied me
of light’s vibrancy.

A walking shadow I have become.
My soul’s pockets empty of life.

I see my shadow now,
flittering closely behind me,
determined to follow my trails
into the encroaching darkness.”
― Susan L. Marshall, All the Hope We Carry

“I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces.”
― Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

“Once lost in Hades' hall
You will be homeless and invisible -
Another shadow flittering back and forth
With shadows of no worth.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“When I feel I lost the fight long ago in my mind, a shadow stands before me, shielding me from my enemy. A shadow made of anger and revolt, a shadow that is the amalgamation of all traits I lack and desperately seek.

A shadow that jolts the inner sanctum of the enemy.
A shadow that mockingly belittles my demons.
A shadow that engulfs the villainous monsters in one go, letting the light shine at peace every-where.
A shadow that induces dreadful fear even inside the fear-inducing evil.
An answer to all my questions.”
― Udayakumar D.S., FT Legacy 1: Who is Frank Twine?

“When there is mutual shadow projection between individuals, groups, or nations, each side has an unconscious investment in the other playing out the projected evil so as to prove their own self-righteous innocence. What ensues is a vicious cycle that ensures that neither side has to look at their own darkness. This dynamic fastens the two sides together, as if in their mutual projections there is an elastic band tying them together, and this dynamic becomes self-reinforcing. As such, it gives both parties clear justification to feel victimized by the other as well as continually feeding the diabolical polarization in the field.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“Becoming conscious of our own darkness dispels our sense of being better (or worse) than anyone else. This recognition connects us with the rest of humanity—as we are all recognized to be in the same boat.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“In the garden of self, the wise gardener must guide,
Sun and shade, water and earth, in harmony reside.
Just as plants seek balance in nature’s embrace,
Ego and essence together find their place.

A task of awareness, conscious and clear,
Ensures neither ego nor essence reigns supreme, but near.
In this journey of the soul’s own making,
Both light and shadow partake in awakening.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“To cultivate harmony between ego and essence is to walk the middle path, a path of balance and unity, where the light of the essence illuminates the shadows cast by the ego, and the ego, in turn, grounds us in the physical world we inhabit. This is the path of true self-mastery, a journey that leads to the inner sanctum of peace and the outer expression of our highest potential. It is in this sacred alignment that we find our true selves, not as fragmented beings of light and shadow, but as whole, integrated beings, dancing in the eternal light of harmony.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“In your life too, the interplay of ego and essence is at work,
Shadow and light are part of your nature.
In your heart, there is that duality.
Pride and deep truth, are together, in you.

In your soul, the story of you, as the hero, is softly spun,
Witness even in mundane acts, grandeur’s seeds are sown.
Your daily deeds, though small, are never done,
In every breath, your true, victorious self is shown.

At times unseen in day’s bright, blinding light,
You shine with fierce resolve past night’s embrace,
Is this a humble life – in silence’s might?
Perhaps. Though, maybe, you calmly shape the world, and time, and space.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“Within The Self, where sight and soul entwine; through the prism of perception, you find your line. Your soul is powerful, and radiant, there, in the light of your ego’s flame. So what if you let it glow with essence, pure, devoid of shame!?”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“Where vision’s depth and spirit’s breath converge, a cosmos where reality and dreams diverge, in every spectrum, life’s quantum strings vibrate, in soul’s vast universe, where thoughts create. A dance of light reveals the shades of your internal day, in ego’s fire, some truths may turn to gray, yet essence pure, in radiant array. In the interplay of shadow and gleam, you find the heart of your chosen dream.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“In the shadow of the light of a star, you lose your light.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“SHADOW

Never lose your essence,
the child-like presence,
For there’s much strength
soaring within!
Yours,
Shadow.”
― Preethi Saravanakumar, Scribblings Of My Soul

“In the interplay of shadow and light, form and void, we witness the harmony of ego and essence in the creation of beauty.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“The dark doorway opened after my knocks and a man filled the doorway, wearing a long anorak like a soaked shadow.”
― William Henry Searle, Threads: Finding pattern in the everyday

“So much about peace is learned in battle”
― Dean Cocozza