My headless shadow fell across the warm painted metal…

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

— Adam Zagajewski

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.

— Pindar

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor…

— Brennan Manning

I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.

— Sandra Bernhard

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

— Haruki Murakami

I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play…

— Stephen Coonts

Even in the dark your shadow is like a guide to me! you are my rising sun that brings forth hope just as it…

— Nkemjika Linus

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

— Hugh Howey

Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and…

— Alexander the Great

“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,…

— Neil Gaiman

I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

— Charles Dickens

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

— William Hague

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

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

— Joanne Harris

When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success…

— Robert Redford