Shadow Quotes

“Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other.”
― J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters

“...only down below can we find the fiery source of life.”
― C.G. Jung

“He might wield shadows, Violet, but give him his way, and you'll become one.'

'That won't happen,' I promise her.

'It will if he has anything to say about it.' Her gaze flickers behind me. 'Killing someone isn't the only way to destroy them. Keeping you from reaching your potential seems like a great path to the retribution he swore against our mother.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“There is a wind, and the flowers on the window-sill, and their shadows on the curtains, are waving. Like swans dipping their beaks in water. Like the incalculable raising its head, uselessly and wildly, for one moment, before it sinks down, beaten, into the darkness. Like skulls on long, thin necks. Plunging wildly when the wind blows to the end of the curtain, which is their nothingness. Distorting themselves as they plunge.
The musty smell, the bugs, the loneliness, this room, which is part of the street outside - this is all I want from life.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“Humans are forever in the process of nurturing the wounds of their unworthiness – a constant visitor in the psyche – the mortally wounded heroine who lies in the forest of shadows singing for years and years.”
― Louisa Punt-Fouche

“If you have a dream to have your own shadow walk in front of you rather than behind you as you walk towards the sun, then you can be a good scientist because you have the desire to change some of the facts that the universe dictates to you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“This soul has no home, no voice. Therefore it will burn in the sea as shadow until the darkness dawns.”
― Matheesha Prathapa

“We should not stray from the darkness within us, that thing we call our Shadow. We should embrace it and learn from it. Only then will we truly understand ourselves. We must bring light to the darkness.”
― Trevor Carter, PSYCHOID: A Novel

“Through shadow projection we are able to turn our enemies into ‘devils’ and convince ourselves that they are not men and women like ‘us’, but monsters unworthy of humane consideration. National leaders can make unscrupulous use of this propensity in order to achieve their own political purposes”
― Anthony Stevens, On Jung

“The heart must present itself alone to the Nothing and alone beat out in silence its palpitations in the shadows. You only sense your own heart in your ears.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“Those who are incorruptible are hated by those who are, for they see themselves in the shadow.”
― Laurence Overmire

“In darkness, there's a beauty that sets me free. A place where the unknown becomes my friend, and the shadows are my loyal team. Welcome to my realm, where darkness reigns supreme.”
― Nag Aditya (Wild One)

“This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.”
― Al-Ghazali

“Being Smiling Brahma is to register the fact that nothing is permanent; be it shine, be it shadows, be it happiness, be it sorrows.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color.”
― Steven Wright, Harold

“Don't guess, only the shadow will appear.”
― amd7

“The sun was nearly gone by then and one half of Jem’s face glowed with sunset fire, the other side cast to shadow as she leaned forward.”
― Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

“Created with the perfect blend of stardust, shadows, and light, you're all those things and more.”
― Stefanie Ruth, Your Sacred Journey: The Ultimate Guidebook to Align Your Mind, Body, & Spirit

“The light through a thin book page, the shadow of a hand behind ready to turn”
― Michelle Cuevas, The Dreamatics

“You are jealous of your shadow because your shadow has no burden of life, and your shadow is jealous of you because it is not real like you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Shade Yor hated what he was, not the fact that he was a Chitta, the fact that he was a broken one. He hated the migraines and the constant fluctuating emotions that made it impossible for him to ever pinpoint how he was personally feeling.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Don't live in the shadow of someone's shadow.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“And he said...

...do not overcook your goose otherwise people will sup on your shadow.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Most people feel no particular need to make these shadow projections conscious, although by refusing to do so they place themselves in an extremely precarious state. If this is true for the individual as microcosm, it is surely true for the nation as macrocosm. " The psychology of war has clearly brought this condition to light: everything which are own nation does is good, everything which the other nations do is wicked. The center of all that is mean and vile is always to be found several miles behind the enemy's lines." This statement written by Jung in 1928 is as applicable today as it was when it was written. How tragically we watch as the inhumanities of war perpetrated by our own side are justified as being in the long run for the common good, while those of the enemy become a justification for the continuations of our own immorality. It is only when our own youth return from the war zones, wounded and drug-ridden and sick in their souls that those who stay at home and watch the war from a lounge chair propped up before a television set begin to get the message.”
― June Singer, Boundaries of the Soul, Revised and Updated: The Practice of Jung's Psychology

“Our cultural passion for the angelic expresses our longing to be in paradise, to return on earth to a time of connectedness and goodwill, to a time when we were heart-whole. Even though the images of angels we most commonly see are childlike figures aglow with rapture and unspeakable delight, as messengers they carry the weight of our burdens, our sorrows, and our joys, In representations they are most often given a childlike visage to remind us that enlightenment comes only as we return to a childlike state and are born again.
We see angels as light-hearted creatures in swift motion reaching for the heavens. Their being and the weight of their knowledge is never static,. Always changing, they see through our false selves. Possessing psychic insight, intuition, and the wisdom of the heart they stand for the promise of life fulfilled through the union of knowledge and responsibility, As guardians of the soul's well-being, they care for us and with us. Our turning toward the angelic is evocative of our yearning to embrace spiritual growth. It reveals our collective desire to return to love.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“She lives her life in Hannah's shadow and even in her fall, she is still nothing but a shadow of what Hannah is.”
― João Pedro Vasconcellos, THE TRAGEDY OF HADES: A Tale Between Two Sisters (HADES

“Those who are not corruptible are hated by those who are, for they see themselves in the shadow.”
― Laurence Overmire

“Light a candle every day until no corner is able to harbor a shadow. And then, keep lighting candles because the world will never be without corners.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I niko pred tom ponudom nije ravnodušan, pa ni ja: mrav spram Mont Everesta, kapljica vode spram Pacifika, zrnce peska spram Sahare. Ponuđač mi se primiče, samo senka – mračna, bez mirisa i bez ukusa, kao voda koja će se prilagoditi šolji i koja mi kazuje da treba da u konačnici, u konačnom krahu svetova budem voda, a ne šolja, da budem bujica koja će sa sobom odneti tragove svakog pređašnjeg poretka i tlo pročistiti za poredak koji predstoji. Najednom sam sasvim sâm, ali ne usamljen – sâm u poretku stvari koji samo laže da mu samoća nije strana, a koji jeste usamljen. Sve mi je postalo strano, od svega sam se odmakao. Svi su mostovi srušeni, stojim na nasipu svemira gde je crvena boja dana koji dolaze, sa krajnjim odredištem u crnoj.”
― Boban Trifunović, Jaganjci

“As a natural blonde
I can turn into ginger,
if I stay in the shade
And let my hair linger!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Dearer Mirror