My Shadow Quotes

My shadow serves as the friend I crave
- Anna Akhmatova

Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.
- Anna Akhmatova

You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
That day in Moscow, it will all come true,
when, for the last time, I take my leave,
And hasten to the heights that I have longed for,
Leaving my shadow still to be with you.
- Anna Akhmatova

The cicadas pierce the air with their searing one-note calls; dust eddies across the roads; from the weedy patches at the verges, grasshoppers whir. The leaves of the maples hang from their branches like limp gloves; on the sidewalk my shadow crackles.
- Margaret Atwood

I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.
- James M Barrie

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)
- Peter S Beagle

My shadow is only half of what it should be."
"Everyone has their shortcomings.
- Haruki Murakami

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.
- William Shakespeare

But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.
- Jennifer Brown

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
- Gary Busey

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.
- Mike Carey

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.
- Angela Carter

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
- Angela Cartwright

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
- Adelbert Von Chamisso

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.
- Bruce Cockburn

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.
- Mary Shelley

I caught a glimpse of my shadow today. It's usually so hard to see because it always hides behind me. It's so much easier to see everyone else's.
- Damien Echols

I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.
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.
- Elizabeth I Tudor

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.
- Elizabeth I Tudor

If I die, who's going to take care of my shadow? Or will it return to the night, from whence it came? While I sleep at night I keep my shadow folded neatly in my underwear drawer.
- Jarod Kintz

My shadow's so substantial that it has its own shadow. It isn't as tall, but that's OK, because sometimes it feels like I'm being followed by a black midget.
- Jarod Kintz

I'd use my shadow as a blanket, but it's too cold. It's a shame, because it'd fit snuggly over my body.
- Jarod Kintz

I buy black clothes, so I can hide behind my shadow.
- Jarod Kintz

I wish I could sculpt my shadow into my night clone, and it could be out earning me money while I slept, instead of being folded up neatly in my underwear drawer like it is now.
- Jarod Kintz

My shadow has holes in it, I guess from too much time standing in front of a spaghetti strainer. I now have an inverted leopard shadow, with spots of light.
- Jarod Kintz

I love to chase my shadow to feel how it rests in the dark.
- Munia Khan

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.
- Herman Melville

This was the photograph, I knew, that had already burned its way into my dreams and my shadows, into that part of my mind that I have no control over. Its image would reappear in all its wanton cruelty for the rest of my life, particularly when I was least prepared for it.
- Dennis Lehane

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
- Brennan Manning

Once upon a time, son,
they used to laugh with their hearts
and laugh with their eyes;
but now they only laugh with their teeth,
while their ice-block-cold eyes
search behind my shadow.
There was a time indeed
they used to shake hands with their hearts;
but that's gone, son.
Now they shake hands without hearts
while their left hands search
my empty pockets.
- Gabriel Okara

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
- Plutarch

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
- Theodore Roethke

What's madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned against a sweating wall, that place among the rocks--is it a cave, or winding path? The edge is what I have.
- Theodore Roethke

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
- Jon Ronson

I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did she make of us? I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuade ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?
- Diane Setterfield

It's been me all along," said September slowly. "Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtn't just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. I've got to see it through, don't you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because she's missing the part of her that's me. We've got to come together again. And he can't do a thing about that.
- Catherynne M Valente

Everyone has a temptation; a weakness that they would yield to. Mine is you. Not only you, but your love. For your love is unique. For you are the other half of my soul. I feel you, even when you are not there. It's like a shadow. You are my shadow. Your love follows me every step I tread.
- Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
- Brent Weeks