Sayings about Shadows
All sins cast long shadows. ~ Irish Proverbs
If you are standing upright, don’t worry if your shadow is crooked. If you want an audience, start a fight. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Never judge things of which you only know the shadow. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Our shadow will follow us. ~ Tamil Proverbs
Old sins cast long shadows. ~ Traditional Proverb
Death is a shadow that always follows the body. ~ English Proverbs
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. ~ French Proverbs
Small people always cast big shadows. ~ French Proverb
Too often do we waste time chasing a gust of wind or grasping at shadows. ~ Chinese Proverb
When the tree falls, the shadow flies. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you are eager to be in the shadow, leave your axe at home. ~ Japanese Proverb
Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies. ~ Chinese Proverb
So the man, so his shadow. ~ Russian Proverbs
Beware of a man’s shadow and a bee’s sting. ~ Burmese Proverbs
No matter how fast a man is, he cannot outrun his shadow. ~ Cameroon Proverbs
Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
A person’s reputation is like his shadow-sometimes it follows and sometimes it precedes him; and sometimes it is smaller and sometimes it is bigger than him. ~ French Proverb
Shadows are formed all along the wishes of the sun. ~ Chinese Proverb
A little man often casts a long shadow. ~ Italian Proverbs
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow. ~ Chinese Proverb
A man cannot jump over his own shadow. ~ Yiddish Proverb
He who dreams for too long will become like his shadow. ~ Indian Proverbs
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~ New Zealander Proverbs
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~ Swedish Proverbs
Glory is the shadow of virtue. ~ Latin Proverbs
No hill without gravestones, no valley without shadows. ~ South African Proverb
However swift a man, he will not outstrip his shadow. ~ Cameroonian Proverbs
A coquettish woman is like a shadow — as you chase her she runs away, and if you run away, she chases after you. ~ Iranian Proverbs
The night is the king of the shadows. ~ Senegalese Proverbs
Even the smallest little bush casts some shadow. ~ French Proverb
A well mannered man does not step on the shadow of his fellow man. ~ Chinese Proverb
One measures the towers by their shadows and great people by those who envy them. ~ Chinese Proverb
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. ~ Bible
Nobody can rest in his own shadow. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
As the sun’s shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth. ~ Afghan Proverbs
When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow. ~ Italian Proverb
The tree casts its shadow on everything, even upon the woodcutter. ~ Indian Proverb
Often a branch is broken off the tree by the one who has rested in its shadow. ~ Myanmar Proverb
He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow. ~ Chinese Proverb
Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun. ~ Japanese Proverb
One’s shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon. ~ Chinese Proverb
The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush — soon gone. ~ French Proverb
Only tall things cast shadows. ~ Myanmar Proverb
Even the white lily casts a shadow. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Big trees cast more shadow than fruit. ~ German Proverbs
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. ~ Chinese Proverb
Light in the streets, shadows in the house. ~ South American Proverb
Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me under the shadow of thy wings. ~ Bible
Never drop the bone to catch the shadow. ~ Belizean Proverb
The shadow should be the same length as the body. ~ Indonesian Proverbs
Quotations about Shadows
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. ~ Tryon Edwards
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby. ~ Ruth E. Renkel
When we have a world of only now, with no shadows of yesterdays or clouds of tomorrow, then saying what we can do will work. ~ Goldie Ivener
Man is a substance clad in shadows. ~ John Sterling
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. ~ Orison Swett Marden
Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will. ~ Mary W. Stewart
In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body. ~ Ruth Benedict
Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. ~ Sting
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~ Author Unknown
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
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ~ Thomas Paine
When walking through the “valley of shadows,” remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. ~ H.K. Barclay
Shadows fall on even the brightest hours. ~ Bryan Waller Proctor
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. ~ Joseph Joubert
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow. ~ Author Unknown
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it’s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun. ~ Jean Genet
Shadow owes its birth to light. ~ John Gay
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. ~ Buddha
Across the singing waves the shadows creep. ~ Celia Leighton Thaxter
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations — always darker, emptier, simpler than these. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. ~ Carl Jung
Thus shadow owes its birth to light. ~ John Gay
What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams. ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~ Arnold H. Glasow
Men are the dreams of a shadow. ~ Pindar
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun. ~ Jalal-Uddin Rumi
Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death. ~ Jean Baptiste Moliere
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Out of the chill and the shadow, Into the thrill and the shine; Out of the dearth and the famine, Into the fullness divine. ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow. ~ Author Unknown
To rid ourselves of our shadows — who we are — we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil. ~ Jeremy P. Johnson
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. ~ John Christian Bovee
Time is a very shadow that passeth away. ~ Apocrypha
Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. ~ David Kelley
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal. ~ Phyllis Bottome
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. ~ Buddha Quotes
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ~ Edward Young
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ~ Sydney Smith
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~ Carl Sandburg
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ~ Jean De La Fontaine
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~ Aesop
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. ~ Bayard Ruskin
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is — it is her shadow. ~ Philip James Bailey
Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind. ~ Charles Field
Come like shadows, so depart! ~ William Shakespeare
Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings. ~ George MacDonald
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. ~ Yutang, Lin
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. ~ Pythagoras
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. ~ Helen Keller Quotes
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. ~ Rachel Carson
A people always ends by resembling its shadow. ~ Rudyard Kipling
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. ~ John Christian Bovee
One’s reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
The shadows will always be behind those who walk toward the light. ~ James F. Oates Jr.
Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. ~ Henry H. Haskins
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. ~ Socrates Quotes
We stand in our own light wherever we go, and fight our own shadows forever. ~ Owen Meredith
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. ~ Oswald Chambers
Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. ~ Ruth J. Gendler
And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. ~ Virgil
Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. ~ Hilaire Belloc
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. ~ Hilaire Belloc
Light and Shadow: Introduces different kinds of light, the properties of light, and how light can create shadows of different shapes and sizes.~ Book preview
