Beginnings and ends Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within…

— Louis L'Amour

Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses…

— Elie Wiesel

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

— Rudyard Kipling

A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep…

— Rick Riordan

What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

— Terry Pratchett

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

— Sydney Schanberg

Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.

— Gautama Buddha