Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

— Anaïs Nin

Eternity will not cause our memories to fade, it will force our hearts to accept the past.

— Ross Caligiuri

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

— Edmund Burke

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

— Charles Lee

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

— Thomas Browne

Trees surrounded them from all sides, casting long inky shadows that would, at another time, have been scary. But there was no point in being scared of what might be lurking in the shadows when the biggest bad, of all big bads, was gazing at her intently.

— Caroline Hanson

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

— Junichiro Tanizaki

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows.

— Johnny Rich

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all.

— James Michael Pratt

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

— Chuck Palahniuk