Shadow Quotes

“...only down below can we find the fiery source of life.”
― C.G. Jung

“He might wield shadows, Violet, but give him his way, and you'll become one.'

'That won't happen,' I promise her.

'It will if he has anything to say about it.' Her gaze flickers behind me. 'Killing someone isn't the only way to destroy them. Keeping you from reaching your potential seems like a great path to the retribution he swore against our mother.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I felt as if my own personality was changing shades or even as if I had no personality. I was a blank canvas and I let people paint their own shadows onto me freely. With what was left of my intuition I must have grasped the symbolism of it. This must be the explanation why when we were all asked by our literature teacher 'What animal do you indetify with?' I answered 'chameleon'.”
― R.P. Heaven, Awakening Ignited

“To lose everything, and remain apart,
darkness always round her, darkness in her heart!
To wander the world, without peace or cheer,
shadow ever pursuing, and escape nowhere!

Young girl, endure, evil takes its toll,
through it all you will emerge with naught, yet pure in soul.
And though shadow may threaten all that you hold dear,
it cannot possess you, nor the beauty that you bear…
At the end of your dark journey you still will feel the light;
out of shadows, a whole empire, kingdom beyond sight.”
― Nikola Stefan, Tale of Tales – Part I: A Strange Bunch

“But you looked away, and seemed to be avoiding looking at Shadow too, so that I immediately began to think about how it had been him who had led me to you, and then about all of his uncanny ways, not least of which is his choice of a creature like you for a master. I patted his head, feeling about for the glamor, as I have never bothered to do before---and why should I; I do not make a habit of looking beneath people's pets to see if there is a monster hiding there---and sure enough, there it was, and when I moved the magic aside, a bloody Black Hound stared back at me, all glowing eyes and glistening fangs.
You looked worried, for some reason, but you calmed down when I started laughing. "Where did you get him?" I said.
"In Scotland," you replied. "He's a Grim. I rescued him from a boggart, who was tormenting him for sport.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“If you have a dream to have your own shadow walk in front of you rather than behind you as you walk towards the sun, then you can be a good scientist because you have the desire to change some of the facts that the universe dictates to you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“This soul has no home, no voice. Therefore it will burn in the sea as shadow until the darkness dawns.”
― Matheesha Prathapa

“You and your shadow can look so different! What's even weirder is that sometimes your shadow can look more like you than you do!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Get to know yourself and your intuition more. Don't be afraid to meet your shadow but strive to become a better person after. Your soul is like an unfinished sculpture and you are the artist - so work diligently to polish the masterpiece. You can never be perfect on this physical plane but you can be better. It doesn't have to be a burden although it is indeed hard work. Accept it as a journey of a lifetime; a dangerous expedition with a set of challenges but with a trophy at the end - because that's exactly what it is.”
― R.P. Heaven, Awakening Ignited

“Do not trust even your own shadow,
because even she leaves you when you are in the dark.”
― Augusto Branco

“I am not on the righteous path but I am neither on the wicked path. I am just... on my own path.”
― Areki Violet

“Beside them, anyone might as well be a shadow, a blurry reflection of a reflection.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“The persona is what we would like to be and how e wish to be seen y the world. It is our psychological clothing and it meditates between our true selves and our environment just as our physical clothing presents an image to those we meet. The ego is what we are and know about consciously. The shadow is that part of us we fail to see or know.”
― Robert A Johnston

“Change comes about by understanding your own shadow.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I’ve been chasing myself my whole life, 
like chasing my own shadow. 
When I finally stopped,

I managed to catch up with myself, 
realising that,

I’ve been here the whole time.”
― Nanne Nyander, Out of the Labyrinth: Poems

“The moon showed her face, casting the garden below in silver and shadow.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“And as soon as she says this, it’s as if a dark shadow has descended across her face. She won’t look at me, and the shine in her eyes has been blown away. Now, they’re as cloudy as the sky before a storm. It’s astonishing really, the change in her demeanour. If I was seeing her for the first time, I’d be sure I was looking at a girl who’s never once laughed or smiled. Matter of fact, I’d be certain she wasn’t capable of it.”
― Michael Grothaus, Beautiful Shining People

“GÖLGE

Rüzgâr renkli bugün
Demekti gökkuşağından geçmiş
Köşedeki çiçekçi erken paydos etmiş
Belli ki herkes sevdiğini görmeye gitmiş
Sokak çocuk gibi şen bugün
Demek ki sevgilim az önce geçmiş
Uykum beni bu sabah erken terk etmiş
Belli ki her şeyin hayal olduğunu yine fark etmiş”
― Tarık Alptekin, Âlem Olan Kelimeler

“Shadows are our reflection but even a light heart has a dark shadow.”
― Kajal Katiyar

“You'll run, and I'll be the shadow at your back”
― C.J. Redwine, Rise of the Vicious Princess

“More: as the cure depends on care, so does caring sometimes mean nothing more than carrying.”
― James Hillman

“That was the power of radio at its height. The Shadow, we were assured at the beginning of each episode, had "The power to cloud men's minds." It strikes me that, when it comes to fiction in the media, it is television and movies which so often cloud that part of our minds where the imagination moves most fruitfully; they do so by imposing the dictatorship of the visual set.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

“Shadow continues his search outside for a door to the mortal realm. I have faith in him, my oldest, most loyal friend---if there is a way out, he will find it.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Shadow lay curled at my side and rolled upright with a delighted snort when he sensed I was awake. He shoved his huge muzzle into my face and licked me, while I half patted, half swatted him away. I'm afraid his breath is immune to glamor and smells exactly as you'd expect a Black Hound's breath to smell---rather deathly.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Once again I entered the realms of terror that only a child can know. I realized that the shadow that leered at me from out of the dark might not be dispelled by bright light.”
― Stephen King

“Humans are forever in the process of nurturing the wounds of their unworthiness – a constant visitor in the psyche – the mortally wounded heroine who lies in the forest of shadows singing for years and years.”
― Louisa Punt-Fouche

“In darkness, there's a beauty that sets me free. A place where the unknown becomes my friend, and the shadows are my loyal team. Welcome to my realm, where darkness reigns supreme.”
― Nag Aditya (Wild One)

“This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.”
― Al-Ghazali

“Being Smiling Brahma is to register the fact that nothing is permanent; be it shine, be it shadows, be it happiness, be it sorrows.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color.”
― Steven Wright, Harold