Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

— Junichiro Tanizaki

“Whenever I see the alcove of a tastefully built Japanese room, I marvel at our comprehension of the secrets of shadows, our sensitive use…

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long…

— Cassandra Clare

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

— Opal Whiteley

The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this…

— Vhils

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try…

— Karen Marie Moning

“There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these shadows as everything unpleasant in…

— Kensi Brianne Smith

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

— Robert Plant

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

— John Flanagan

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

— Hugh Howey

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are…

— Anonymous