The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
Dag Hammarskjold

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Rita Dove

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
George W. Bush

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
Elizabeth Bishop

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
Rod Serling

There is a shadow on every page.
Eugene Ormandy

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

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
Lucan

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Sam Snead

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
Neil Gaiman

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Jerome K. Jerome

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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