Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

“Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night. And where the shadow was,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If I die, whos going to take care of my shadow? Or will it return to the night, from whence it came? While I…

— Tamika-leeigh

“At the base of the immense pillar, tiny Babylon was in shadow. Then the darkness climbed the tower, like a canopy unfurling upward. It…

— Ted Chiang

“For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky. —”

— Ted Chiang

“I used to live my life at night in the shadow of my dark past, I lived in shadows for so long until the…

— Danny Maximus

“Shadow? What is shadow when all is night? Nothing is shadow at all!”

— P.S. Clinen

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

— Aristotle

“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

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

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

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

— Adam Zagajewski