Top 277 Shadow Quotes

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
Robert Jackson
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard
Like their personal lives, women’s history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Elizabeth Janeway
You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life’s battle.
Orison Swett Marden
You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.
Mike McGavick
I know I live in the shadow of the greatest drummer in the world, so it’s nice to have a bit of sunshine now and again.
Jason Bonham
If you were to just slap together Six of Crows’ and Shadow and Bone,’ it really wouldn’t work.
Leigh Bardugo
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
I don’t love being thought of as Neil’s barnacle. It’s a strange shadow to follow.
David Burtka
The success of ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It’s disconcerting that there’s been this weird business model focused on teenaged boys, and it comes with a completely unexamined social cost. I hope there’s an awareness happening to create an audience habituated to seeing women as they really are, rather than just a masticated shadow.
Connie Nielsen
I can’t even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general… When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can’t even see myself standing in their shadow.
Norman Schwarzkopf
We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.
Kenneth H. Cooper
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
George P. Shultz
My best friend used to make fun of me about the camps I wasn’t invited to, and I used to get mad. He was just always better, always the favorite. I was always the one in the shadow that everybody was like, ‘He’s not good enough. Might not even make it to college.’
Avery Bradley
A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop’s wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.
Richard Carmona
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
Something that’s very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It’s important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.
Santiago Calatrava
It's important to let children fly on their own. I unde

It’s important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.
Lidia Bastianich
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis
Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers would not stop for me after dark; white girls jogged to keep ahead of my shadow thrown at their heels by the amber street lamps. Part of me didn’t blame them, but most of me was hurt.
Darryl Pinckney
I am about as detailed as a shadow.
Lynda Barry
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.
Howard Nemerov
Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Walter Scott
I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.
Zara Larsson
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Ralph Ellison
New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who’s come from here will tell you that same story.
Jon Bon Jovi
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
I love Better Than Sex Mascara, and Shadow Insurance Eye Primer is superawesome.
Kat Von D
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Jerome K. Jerome
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
William Griffith Wilson
When ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ became a success I had already been a working writer, I’d been through the ups and downs, I’d seen how it worked.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The gloom of Covid-19 has cast a shadow on the charm of Diwali.
Gurpreet Ghuggi
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy
There is a shadow on every page.
Eugene Ormandy
I knew about boxing, as my dad could fight. He had a successful security firm in Liverpool, and I’d see him come back from a jog before shadow boxing in the back yard. I’d watch and replicate what he was doing, as kids do. It’s funny how things turn out.
Tony Bellew
For me it’s even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It’s a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.
Ian McDiarmid
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
Bret Stephens
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph Addison
I really like ‘ICO’ and ‘Shadow of the Colossus.’
Jenova Chen
It’s hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
Natalie Cole
I’m quite different to my brother. As kids, I was his shadow – I always wanted to do things with him. I’m sure I cramped his style a little.
Ellyse Perry
Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
Bruno Dumont
I have spent a very long time in Cate’s shadow – she casts a pretty big one. I have always had the support of my family and coach, and they have always stressed we are completely different people and will achieve things in our own time. They stressed I would get my moment. I just had to be patient.
Bronte Campbell
When you’ve done a show that’s as successful as ‘Lovejoy’ was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped ‘Lovejoy’ by not doing any television for four years.
Ian McShane
Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn’t really do much for you. Instead, try one that’s a few shades lighter than your skin tone.
Bobbi Brown
I love 'Shadow' the most! The melody is awesome, and I

I love ‘Shadow’ the most! The melody is awesome, and I really like how the lyrics express genuine emotions.
Dahyun
When you think of the sacrifices our firefighters make, think about the service of soldiers in foreign lands and listen to their lives, you have to be careful that whatever you do, don’t cast a shadow on what these great people do.
Jim Brown
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
Christopher Golden
As a shadow minister I’ve been working with the Treasury team for years and they’ve been clear we couldn’t make unfunded commitments.
Liz Kendall
Todd Palin’s frequent presence in the governor’s office led some in Juneau to call him the ‘Shadow Governor.’ But it had never been clear, at least to the public, what roles he played.
Bill Dedman
Mascara can definitely be one of the hardest parts of the beauty routine. Nothing is worse than when you are applying your mascara, and you’ve worked an hour on the most flawless blended eye shadow, and with one slip of the finger, your mascara is all over your face.
James Charles
Historic inequality continues to cast a long shadow on more than just law enforcement. It affects everything from housing to employment to transportation.
Kevin Faulconer
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
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Walter Bagehot
Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines – by turns, embracing and defying it.
Matthew Pearl
I use a toothbrush on my lips as a lip scrub; occasionally, I use a toothbrush with some dark eye shadow on my eye brows if I want to fill them in. And if I want a really thick, textured look with mascara, I put one on my lashes, as well.
Dua Lipa