There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
Conrad Hall

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
Richard O'Brien

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
Joshua Sylvester

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo

To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Victor Hugo

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Charlotte Whitton

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.
Jonathan Frid

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

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Austin O'Malley

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Theodore Dreiser

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
Roy H. Williams

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
Allan Dwan