100 Best Shadow Quotes And Sayings That Kids Will Love
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Shadows are always seen as a bit of a mysterious phenomenon.
Yet, for shadows to work, you will always find the light. Shadow and light, brightest and darkest - these two go hand in hand.
Over time, shadows have been often used to usually denote the darkest of situations but many writers and poets have inverted that trope. Thus, it comes with no surprise that you will find many shadow quotes that show shadows in a positive light.
So let's take a look at some of the best and most inspirational shadow quotes that will surely work for you.
If you like this, take a look at darkness quotes and [moonlight quotes].
Inspirational Shadow Quotes
Take a look at these shadow quotes that we are sure you will find motivational. You will find some short and cool shadow quotes that will help work out problems:
1. "One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death."
- Max Lucado
2. "I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow."
- Gwen John.
3. "I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves."
- Sir Anthony Hopkins.
4. "It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light."
- St. Catherine of Siena.
5. "There is strong shadow where there is much light."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. "From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring..."
- J. R. R. Tolkien, 'The Fellowship Of The Ring'.
7. "The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow."
- George R. R. Martin, 'A Clash Of Kings'.
8. "Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it’s all good."
- Susan W. Krebs.
9. "A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow."
- Leonardo da Vinci.
10. "I like my shadow; it reminds me that I exist."
- Mehmet Murat Ildan.
11. "Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream."
- Euripedes.
12. "Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing."
- Abraham Lincoln.
13. "I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
- Pablo Neruda.
14. "So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do."
- Rainer Maria Rilke.
15. "Events cast long shadows before. One such event would be a war. But how are shadows to be seen When total darkness fills the screen?"
- Bertolt Brecht.
16. "Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end."
- Mary Anne Radmacher.
17. "Light is the shadow of god."
- Plato.
18. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
- Charles Swain.
19. "A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."
- Benjamin Franklin.
20. "My shadow serves as the friend I crave."
- Anna Akhmatova.
21. "False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
-John Christian Bovee.
22. "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
23. "Life is short, and time is swift;
Roses fade, and shadows shift."
- Ebenezer Elliott.
24. "We never see others. Instead, we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations."
- Chuck Palahniuk.
25. "When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
- Gautama Buddha.
26. "The dearest friend on earth is but a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ."
- Oswald Chambers.
27. "Remember, you have no companions but your shadow."
- Genghis Khan.
28. "Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table."
- George P. Shultz.
29. "Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will."
- Mary Stewart.
30. "The shadows are only the darkest when the light is at its brightest."
- Glenn Beck.
Best Shadow Quotes
These are some of the best shadow quotes that will always work to help you find that perfect balance of light and darkness.
31. "May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you... ”
- Robert Fanney.
32. "A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And oftentimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow."
- George R. R. Martin, 'A Clash Of Kings'.
33. "Shadow is a color as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
- Paul Cezanne.
34. "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
- Michelangelo Buonarroti.
35. "Our imagination flies - we are its shadow on the earth."
- Vladimir Nabokov.
36. "Because you don’t notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right."
- Libba Bray.
37. "Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him."
- C. S. Lewis, 'The Chronicles Of Narnia'.
38. "What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?"
- Mikhail Bulgakov.
39. "Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
40. "It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives."
- Michael Gruber.
41. "The life of a human being is like a shadow."
- Old Latin Proverb.
42. "Even the purest cast a black shadow."
- Kaitlyn Jones.
43. "If you don't have any shadows you're not in the light."
- Lady Gaga.
44. "I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death."
- Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
45. "Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow."
- W.H. Auden.
46. "Befriend your shadow and life will be easier!"
- Robert Jabert.
47. "Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
48. "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, and simpler."
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
49. "A human being is only breath and shadow."
- Sophocles
50. "Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void."
- Joseph Joubert.
51. "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted nevermore!"
- Edgar Allan Poe.
52. "Never in its life has the sun seen shade,
Never in its life seen a shadow where it falls."
- Laurence Housman.
53. "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. "Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations."
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
55. "Turn and face the light, and all you see is brightness. Turn and face shadow, and all of life will appear before you."
- Stan Sudan.
56. "I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."
- Sylvia Plath.
57. "But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows."
- Immanuel Kant
58. "Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby."
- Amy Lee.
59. "All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."
- Leo Tolstoy, 'Anna Karenina'.
60. "Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark."
- George R. R. Martin, 'A Dance With Dragons'.
Brightest Quotes On Light And Shadow
Light and shadow quotes are the best at shedding light on things.
61. "Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth."
- Augusto De Luca.
62. "Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
- Howard Nemerov.
63. "The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow."
- Leonardo da Vinci.
64. "To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast."
- Leonardo da Vinci.
65. "Like a shadow, I am and I am not."
- Rumi.
66. "Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light."
- Terry Pratchett.
67. "Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
- Leo Tolstoy.
68. "Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
- Leonardo da Vinci.
69. "The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman."
- William Shakespeare, 'King Lear'.
70. "Color itself is a degree of darkness."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
71. "Be kind to your shadow."
- Rebecca Lawless.
72. "Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun."
- Evita Peron.
73. "The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone."
- W. B. Yeats.
74. "To rid ourselves of our shadows - who we are - we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil."
- Jeremy P. Johnson.
75. "Some there be that shadow kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss."
- William Shakespeare.
76. "Shadow owes its birth to light."
- John Gay.
77. "Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light."
- Leonardo da Vinci.
78. "There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't."
- Atul Randev.
79. "Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning."
80. "The shadows are as important as the light."
- Charlotte Bronte.
81. "Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."
- John Ruskin.
Illuminating Carl Jung Shadow Quotes
Carl Jung did a majority of his work on the concept of shadow. Here are some of the best shadow quotes from the psychiatrist.
82. "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
- Carl Jung.
83. "To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light."
- Carl Jung.
84. "Taking it in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries. Only monkeys parade with it."
- Carl Jung.
85. "Now that the angel of history has abandoned the Germans, the demons will seek a new victim. And that won’t be difficult. Every man who loses his shadow, every nation that falls into self-righteousness, is their prey."
- Carl Jung.
86. "If we are able to see our own shadow and can bear knowing about it, then a small part of the problem has already been solved."
- Carl Jung.
87. "The more cut off and unconscious we are of our personal shadows, the more vulnerable we are to having those shadows break out and be set free for a time by addictive behaviors."
- Carl Jung.
88. "Integration of the shadow cannot take place and be put to a useful purpose unless one can admit the tendencies bound up with the shadow and allow them some measure of realization – tempered, of course, with the necessary criticism."
- Carl Jung.
89. "Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is."
- Carl Jung.
90. "The shadow that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our annual ancestors."
- Carl Jung.
Inspirational Shadow Quotes And Proverbs
You will find some handpicked shadow quotes and proverbs in this list.
91. "Never judge things of which you only know the shadow."
- Japanese Proverb.
92. "When the tree falls, the shadow flies."
- Chinese Proverb.
93. "Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more."
- Malagasy Proverb.
94. "Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more."
- Malagasy Proverb.
95. "Death is a shadow that always follows the body."
- English Proverb.
Quotes From The Movie 'The Shadow'
'The Shadow' is a 1994 movie starring Alec Baldwin in the role of a superhero based on the comic strips from the '30s. We hope you find these quotes entertaining.
96. "Dr. Tam: Tell me, uh, one thing. How did you know what was happening to me? How did you know who I am?
The Shadow: The Shadow knows."
- 'The Shadow'.
97. "You have no choice: you will be redeemed because I will teach you to use your black shadow to fight evil."
- Tulku, 'The Shadow'.
98. "You're an agent of The Shadow!"
- Dr. Roy Tam, 'The Shadow'.
99. "I'm sick of this Shadow business. His meddling in police affairs. This time tomorrow, I'll put a task force on him."
- Barth, 'The Shadow'.
100. "I'll be there... around every corner... in every empty room... as inevitable as your guilty conscience."
- 'The Shadow'.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for shadow quotes, then why not take a look at sparkle quotes, or night sky quotes?
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