Shadows Quotes

“The darkness agrees with me. It asks me to release it, as loud as a roar and as quiet as a whisper. I remember what my sister said long ago: You must control the darkness. You can’t ever give in to it. But the shadows want to make me happy, and I deserve a little happiness”
― Justina Ireland, Promise of Shadows

“Emily woke to shadows and their voices. They looked different today, because the entire world hurt. The numbness had worn off sometime between sleep and awake, and she was seeing red. The shadows on the walls were not shadows at all, but red blobs consisting of teeth and claws. Her house reeked of pain.

The whole world was fucking bleeding.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to disturb them. But there are things that I have known, even though I never wished to know them and cannot give them a name.”
― Thomas Ligotti , Grimscribe: His Lives and Works

“I am inclined to disagree with Jung when he says the Shadow is the person that we’d rather not be. The Shadow is that unadorned part of ourself, it is flexible the way it stretches and contorts. The Shadow is our dark side, the side we hide and climb into, not the person that we would rather not be, but the person we would rather be.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

“There were shadows in the corners and whispers on the stairs and time was irrelevant as honesty.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“In past wars only homes burnt, but this time
Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.
In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time
Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.”
― Sahir Ludhianvi

“My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself...”
― Munia Khan

“What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities?”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

“Shadows are our Dark Selves brought to Light.”
― Solange nicole

“The cherries on the ends of our cigarettes burned a bright orange against the surrounding shadows, like the stirring of embers, waiting for the phoenix to rise.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Snatched

“The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.”
― Victoria Kahler, Luisa Across the Bay

“Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Personal enlightenment within an individual is a beautiful and often shocking process. We are shocked when we see the shadows for the first time and realise these things are in us! But it is only when there is light that there can be shadows and when we see our own shadows, this is evidence of the light! Rejoice in the discovery of your own shortcomings! They are the evidences of the shining sun! And as you turn towards the sun, the shadows will be behind you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn’t mean you cannot see them.”
― A.D.Y. Howle

“There are two types of people in the world, the bright lights and the quite shadows.”
― Emma Wildes, Seducing the Highlander

“We believe that it is the job of each of us to step outside of ourselves, look beyond the shadows, and seek reality. If we hope to present an authentic self to the world, it is critical that we understand what is real and true about ourselves. So how do we begin to see our companies, our brands, our products, or ourselves as we really are ? For us, the best way to start is to stop watching shadows and start facing reality.”
― Tom Hayes

“Ashes, ashes.” Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.
“We all fall down.”
― A.F. Stewart, Killers and Demons II: They Return

“Outside shadows are blue, I read, because they are lighted by the blue sky and not the yellow sun. Their blueness bespeaks infinitesimal particles scattered down inestimable distance.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Shadows have their own paths!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a place for alertness, but not aliveness, a place with no room for hopes and dreams.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Starless Night

“There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.”
― Vera Nazarian, Cobweb Forest

“Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Fear of shadows was petty. Real fears lived outside the door.”
― A. Lynn, Itsy's Ugly

“Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

“I’m looking for you
in the bare corridor
where my shadow is the only passerby
harmonizing an unsettling whisper:
echoed through my chiming thoughts

From the poem 'Looking For You”
― Munia Khan

“When he placed a candle on the shelf across the room from him and lit its wick, he came to realize that in fact everything he saw was a flat surface, like a screen – that in fact dimension was an illusion. Everything was a flat surface and the pinpoints of light, whether from a candle on the shelf or a gaslamp above the street, were punctures in that surface – gashes made by somebody behind the screen. He realized then that beyond everything he saw there was an entire realm of blazing sunfire, and that colors were only the silhouettes of people in that realm – walking, eating, dancing, doing whatever they were doing behind the screen.

“It astonished Adolphe that everyone failed to realize they were just figures on a tapestry, the shadows of something else. He was therefore amused by the conceit of women, for instance, who who admired the creamy color of their skin when in fact it was only the haze of some other woman behind the vast screen staring into a mirror. Adolphe could explain all of this to himself but he could not explain Janine: Janine wasn't the same as the others. Janine was like their mother; and Adolphe decided Lulu was from this place beyond the surface, and she had, perhaps when she was a little girl, slipped through.

“Adolphe wondered why Lulu hadn't told them about this, and then realized she probably would when she thought they were old enough to understand it. He could see it wasn't something one would want to tell a child too soon.”
― Steve Erickson

“She wandered off into the shadows, carrying her bucket and dragging her shadow like a bridal veil.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón