Shadow Quotes

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. (Plutarch)
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. View quote
Aesop
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is the tree is the real thing. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Word is a shadow of a deed. View quote
Democritus
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. View quote
Carl Jung
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow if I fail, if I succeed at least I did as I believe. View quote
Whitney Houston
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Even one hair has a shadow. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. View quote
Pythagoras
The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. View quote
Carl Sandburg
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. View quote
Joseph Addison
Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,-though I shall not be near thee; Sing,-though I shall never hear thee! View quote
Charles Wolfe
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. View quote
Ralph Ellison
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall. View quote
William Rehnquist
A people always ends by resembling its shadow. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. View quote
Kenneth Clark
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. (Michelangelo)
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. View quote
David Trimble
📖 Shadow Proverbs