Looking for quotes about shadows? We have rounded up the best collection of shadow quotes, sayings, captions, proverbs (with images and pictures) to inspire you to think about the beauty and symbolic meaning of shadows.
The world is all about happiness and sadness coexisting together. It is often said that even your shadow leaves you when its too dark symbolizing that people and friends leave you in tough times.
But life is all about learning to focus on the positive and finding the good in every situation. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. These inspirational quotes on shadows will reflect how joy and sorrow, love and hate exist side by side.
Don’t forget to read our post on light and dark quotes to illuminate all the darkness from life.
Shadow Quotes And Sayings
“Light is the shadow of god.” — Plato Shadow Quotes
“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.” — RumiLight And Shadow Quotes
“Shadow owes its birth to light.” — John Gay Shadow Sayings
“Be kind to your shadow.” — Rebecca Lawless
“Shelter in your shadow.” — Lailah Gifty Akita
“The brighter the sun the darker are the shadows.” Words About Shadows
“Always shoot from the shadow side.” — Ted Grant
“Everything that is, casts a shadow.” — Neil Gaiman
“Both light and shadow are the dance of love.” — RumiShort Shadow Quotes Rumi
“Love is the pursuit of shadows.” — Margaret Atwood
“Even the purest cast a black shadow.” — Kaitlyn Jones
“Light is easy to love. Show me your darkness.” — R. Queen
“The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.” — Jim Dodge
“The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.” — Carl Jung
“Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.” — Carl Jung
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
“Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.” — Thomas Campion
“That’s not my shadow, that’s my darkness.” — S.L. Jennings Sad Shadow Quotes
“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.” — Antonio Porchia
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.” — Goethe
“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” — Euripides
“The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.” — Jay Kristoff
“Befriend your shadow and life will be easier.” — Robert Jabert
“Prestige is the shadow of money and power.” — C. Wright Mills Dark Shadow Quotes
“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)” — Horace
“We are linked by our shadows, not by our light.” — Jun Mochizuki
“If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light.” — Lady Gaga
“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” — Swedish Proverb
“Somethings can only be seen in the shadows.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” — Leo Tolstoy Sunshine And Shadow Quotes
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.” — E. M. Forster
“I like my shadow; it reminds me that I exist.” — Mehmet Murat ildan
“The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.” — George R.R. Martin
“The flickering candle casts liquid shadows.” — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.” — Ambrose
“I love to chase my shadow to feel how it rests in the dark.” — Munia Khan
“The most reliable friend you have is your shadow.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
“Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.” — Anaïs Nin
“Every shadow of doubt is cast from a candle of hope.” — Samuel M. Griffin
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Shadows
“The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.” — Ram Das
“Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.” — Donna Lynn Hope
“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
“If you face the light, shadow will always be behind you.” — Sukant Ratnakar
“The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.” — Confucius
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller Shadow Inspirational Quotes
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” — Michelangelo
“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” — Aesop
“One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.” — Elizabeth Bowen
“Don’t be afraid of the shadows, it only means there’s a light nearby.” — Amy Lee Shadow Quotes Images
“Nobody can rest in the coolness of their own shadow!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
“To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.” — Carl Jung
“Shadow is not an umbrage only but the proof of our Existence.” — Samar Sudha
“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in one’s own sunshine.”
“But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.” — Immanuel Kant
“I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.” — Muhammad Ali
“Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.” — Andre Aciman
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” — Benjamin Franklin
“For every light there was a shadow, for every dream, a nightmare.” — Amber R. Duell
“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.” — Gregory Maguire
“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.” — Leo Tolstoy
“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…” — Louisa May Alcott
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.” — Albert Camus
“It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.” — St. Catherine of Siena
“Some there be that shadow kiss; Such have but a shadow’s bliss.” — William Shakespeare
“Life is a mixture of light and shadow. Calm and storm, and it’s all good.” — Susan W. Krebs
“In life have a friend that is like a mirror and shadow; mirror doesn’t lie and shadow never leaves.”
“May the dark remain in your shadow and the light shine upon you.” — Giovannie de Sadeleer
“There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.” — Isabel Allende
“The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.” — Oswald Chambers
“I’ve been trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following.” — Rudy Francisco
“There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.” — Keri Hulme
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” — William Shakespeare
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” — Leo Tolstoy
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
“To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.” — Robert Jordan
“Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.” — Fausto Cercignani
“Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.” — Nicolaus Copernicus
“These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.” — Sam Snead
“Success is like your own shadow. If you try to catch it you will never succeed. Ignore it and it will follow you.”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“The souls of some people shine so bright, that even their shadows bathe us in light.” — Shakieb Orgunwall
“India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.” — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.” — Hilaire Belloc
“What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.” — Oscar Wilde
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” — Samuel Smiles
“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.” — Howard Nemerov
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” — Jean de La Fontaine
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.” — W.H. Auden
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” — Carl Jung
“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.” — William Butler Yeats
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow.” — Sylvia Plath
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.” — Ibn Taymiyyah
“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather no shadow unless there is also light.” — Margaret Atwood
“Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.” — Maya Angelou
What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?” — Mikhail Bulgakov
“No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.” — Plato
“Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you.”
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura” — Haruki Murakami
“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.” — Walter Scott
“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.” — Christopher Morley
“You cannot escape from the shadow into the light and become illuminated. You must dive into the shadow with the light of your consciousness to reach your core.” — Teal Swan
“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.” — C.G. Jung
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” — Nelson Mandela
“Shadow is never besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.” — Steven Erikson
“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.” — Anthony Hopkins
“Wherever there is light there is shadow. And where there is shadow is cast an amplified perspective, a deeper understanding, an extension of compassion. Accept both (light and shadow) to sanctify the ground on which you stand. Reject one or the other and be damned.” — Amy Larson
“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.” — Terry Tempest Williams
These shadow quotes compel us to think about the meaning of shadows. Our shadows follow us everywhere we go – they are our eternal companions in this life.
Symbolically, shadows represent the dark side of things. We all have imperfections and flaws – these are the shadows of our characters.
