Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That’s what makes us human.
There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.
Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
. . . if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!
There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.