Shadows Quotes

Quotations about Shadows

The shadows will always be behind those who walk toward the light. ~ James F. Oates Jr.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ~ Marcus T. Cicero

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death. ~ Jean Baptiste Moliere

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ~ Edward Young

Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. ~ David Kelley

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. ~ Yutang, Lin

Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will. ~ Mary W. Stewart

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~ Aesop

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Shadow owes its birth to light. ~ John Gay

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby. ~ Ruth E. Renkel

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. ~ Ruth J. Gendler

We stand in our own light wherever we go, and fight our own shadows forever. ~ Owen Meredith

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. ~ Hilaire Belloc

Come like shadows, so depart! ~ William Shakespeare

Out of the chill and the shadow, Into the thrill and the shine; Out of the dearth and the famine, Into the fullness divine. ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Man is a substance clad in shadows. ~ John Sterling

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~ Carl Sandburg

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal. ~ Phyllis Bottome

Across the singing waves the shadows creep. ~ Celia Leighton Thaxter

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. ~ Joseph Joubert

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? ~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings. ~ George MacDonald

A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow. ~ Henry Ward Beecher