Shadow Symbolism Quotes

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a character and they are open to be filled with one's own imagination.

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!

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.