Shadow Quotes

“Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other.”
― J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters

“We should not stray from the darkness within us, that thing we call our Shadow. We should embrace it and learn from it. Only then will we truly understand ourselves. We must bring light to the darkness.”
― Trevor Carter, PSYCHOID: A Novel

“Through shadow projection we are able to turn our enemies into ‘devils’ and convince ourselves that they are not men and women like ‘us’, but monsters unworthy of humane consideration. National leaders can make unscrupulous use of this propensity in order to achieve their own political purposes”
― Anthony Stevens, On Jung

“My dear George, a psychologist never saw a fact in his life. He only hears about feelings; vague things. This doesn’t feel good, I tell you. Trust my hunches and my instincts. I have a nose for something bad. This is very bad. My advice to you is to have the whole damn room torn down and your children brought to me every day during the next year for treatment.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Veldt

“Don't guess, only the shadow will appear.”
― amd7

“The sun was nearly gone by then and one half of Jem’s face glowed with sunset fire, the other side cast to shadow as she leaned forward.”
― Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

“Created with the perfect blend of stardust, shadows, and light, you're all those things and more.”
― Stefanie Ruth, Your Sacred Journey: The Ultimate Guidebook to Align Your Mind, Body, & Spirit

“The light through a thin book page, the shadow of a hand behind ready to turn”
― Michelle Cuevas, The Dreamatics

“You are jealous of your shadow because your shadow has no burden of life, and your shadow is jealous of you because it is not real like you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Shade Yor hated what he was, not the fact that he was a Chitta, the fact that he was a broken one. He hated the migraines and the constant fluctuating emotions that made it impossible for him to ever pinpoint how he was personally feeling.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Don't live in the shadow of someone's shadow.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“And he said...

...do not overcook your goose otherwise people will sup on your shadow.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Most people feel no particular need to make these shadow projections conscious, although by refusing to do so they place themselves in an extremely precarious state. If this is true for the individual as microcosm, it is surely true for the nation as macrocosm. " The psychology of war has clearly brought this condition to light: everything which are own nation does is good, everything which the other nations do is wicked. The center of all that is mean and vile is always to be found several miles behind the enemy's lines." This statement written by Jung in 1928 is as applicable today as it was when it was written. How tragically we watch as the inhumanities of war perpetrated by our own side are justified as being in the long run for the common good, while those of the enemy become a justification for the continuations of our own immorality. It is only when our own youth return from the war zones, wounded and drug-ridden and sick in their souls that those who stay at home and watch the war from a lounge chair propped up before a television set begin to get the message.”
― June Singer, Boundaries of the Soul, Revised and Updated: The Practice of Jung's Psychology

“There is a wind, and the flowers on the window-sill, and their shadows on the curtains, are waving. Like swans dipping their beaks in water. Like the incalculable raising its head, uselessly and wildly, for one moment, before it sinks down, beaten, into the darkness. Like skulls on long, thin necks. Plunging wildly when the wind blows to the end of the curtain, which is their nothingness. Distorting themselves as they plunge.
The musty smell, the bugs, the loneliness, this room, which is part of the street outside - this is all I want from life.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“Our cultural passion for the angelic expresses our longing to be in paradise, to return on earth to a time of connectedness and goodwill, to a time when we were heart-whole. Even though the images of angels we most commonly see are childlike figures aglow with rapture and unspeakable delight, as messengers they carry the weight of our burdens, our sorrows, and our joys, In representations they are most often given a childlike visage to remind us that enlightenment comes only as we return to a childlike state and are born again.
We see angels as light-hearted creatures in swift motion reaching for the heavens. Their being and the weight of their knowledge is never static,. Always changing, they see through our false selves. Possessing psychic insight, intuition, and the wisdom of the heart they stand for the promise of life fulfilled through the union of knowledge and responsibility, As guardians of the soul's well-being, they care for us and with us. Our turning toward the angelic is evocative of our yearning to embrace spiritual growth. It reveals our collective desire to return to love.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“The heart must present itself alone to the Nothing and alone beat out in silence its palpitations in the shadows. You only sense your own heart in your ears.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“She lives her life in Hannah's shadow and even in her fall, she is still nothing but a shadow of what Hannah is.”
― João Pedro Vasconcellos, THE TRAGEDY OF HADES: A Tale Between Two Sisters (HADES

“Those who are incorruptible are hated by those who are, for they see themselves in the shadow.”
― Laurence Overmire

“Those who are not corruptible are hated by those who are, for they see themselves in the shadow.”
― Laurence Overmire

“Light a candle every day until no corner is able to harbor a shadow. And then, keep lighting candles because the world will never be without corners.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I niko pred tom ponudom nije ravnodušan, pa ni ja: mrav spram Mont Everesta, kapljica vode spram Pacifika, zrnce peska spram Sahare. Ponuđač mi se primiče, samo senka – mračna, bez mirisa i bez ukusa, kao voda koja će se prilagoditi šolji i koja mi kazuje da treba da u konačnici, u konačnom krahu svetova budem voda, a ne šolja, da budem bujica koja će sa sobom odneti tragove svakog pređašnjeg poretka i tlo pročistiti za poredak koji predstoji. Najednom sam sasvim sâm, ali ne usamljen – sâm u poretku stvari koji samo laže da mu samoća nije strana, a koji jeste usamljen. Sve mi je postalo strano, od svega sam se odmakao. Svi su mostovi srušeni, stojim na nasipu svemira gde je crvena boja dana koji dolaze, sa krajnjim odredištem u crnoj.”
― Boban Trifunović, Jaganjci

“As a natural blonde
I can turn into ginger,
if I stay in the shade
And let my hair linger!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Dearer Mirror

“They sat as if in the shadow of their own fate...”
― Bruno Schulz

“The hero, on the contrary, must realize that the shadow exists and that he can draw strength from it.”
― Joseph L. Henderson

“Grief is like a shadow, lingering near,
a silent companion, shedding a tear.
It weaves through the soul with a fervent thread,
a veil of memories, softly spread.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“I looked at Shadow. He was worrying one of the pig bones, too distracted by his delight to sense anything amiss. But he caught wind of my unease and went rigid, his jaw still clamped round the bone, drool dangling.
Abruptly, he charged--- not behind us, but at a small red fox regarding us from one of the caves.
"Leave it," I told Shadow, but he kept barking--- the thunderous, unearthly bark he reserves for the most dire situations, rough and rasping like the rattle of death, which brought the chill of the earth below into one's bones.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“Shadow?" I said.
He understood me, of course--- he always does. I do not entirely comprehend the bond between us, as Shadow is the only grim I know of to take a human master, but the beast immediately shed his glamour, growing to a size closer to a bear than anything else, his huge paws tipped in jagged claws.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“Shadow initially seemed unaffected when I placed the thing around his neck. He has worn collars before, both the ordinary and faerie-made variety. But as we walked, his lumbering gait grew more graceful, and he paused frequently to sniff at things.
"What does it do?" Rose enquired.
"It's hobgoblin-made," I said. "They sometimes keep grims as guard dogs. The legend associated with it suggests that it will enhance Shadow's speed and senses.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“Shadow had just finished ripping apart another of the fauns which had strayed too close, in his bloodthirsty estimation, to me. He was so large now that he would intimidate a warhorse, his fur long and rippling like seaweed in dark undersea currents, and forming a mane about his head.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“As soon as I opened my eyes, my vision was obscured by a large quantity of black fur, a cold, wet nose, and an enormous tongue. I was not offended at all--- quite the contrary--- and let Shadow lick my cheeks before burying my face in his neck.
"Poor dear," I murmured. "There, there--- you needn't worry about me leaving you again!"
He has been like this each morning since my return, but I can scarcely object. I missed him as much as he missed me, and have vowed never again to venture anywhere he cannot follow.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands