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Chequer’d shadow. William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus II iii 15
Shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond. William Shakespeare, Richard III V iii 216
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth V v 22, Macbeth
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend? William Shakespeare, Sonnet 53
Life itself is but a shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: all things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God. Lew Brown
The external world of physics has thus become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions. Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, 1928
Stars and shadows ain’t good to see by. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
In addition to luminous UFOs on the lunar surface, NASA recorded the existence of mysterious shadows. Chris Everard, Secret Space II
They had to fake the moon landings because they knew successful trips to the moon and returns could not be made … The footprint he was leaving was in Area 51 … If they couldn’t get a simulator to work on Earth, how in the world could they get the actual lunar module to work on the moon? … The shadows are one of the strong proofs we never went to the moon … Bill Kaysing
We are but dust and shadow. Horace
But the theory still can’t explain these coloured shadows: how green light produces a red shadow or blue light produces a yellow one. Horizon: Colourful Notions, BBC 1985
I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won. George Foreman
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, 1885
Behold! Human beings living in a underground den ... Like ourselves ... they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave. Plato, The Republic
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. William Blake
Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say, are not women truly then
Styled but the shadows of us men. Ben Jonson, That Women Are But Men’s Shadows, 1616
We walked up to the house and stood some minutes watching the swallows that flew about restlessly, and flung their shadows upon the sunbright walls of the old building; the shadows glanced and twinkled, interchanged and crossed each other, expanded and shrunk up, appeared and disappeared every instant. Dorothy Wordsworth
Between the conception
and the creation
between the emotion
and the response
Falls the shadow. Joseph Conrad
Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body. Shadow is of the nature of darkness. Light is of the nature of a luminous body; one conceals and the other reveals. They are always associated and inseparable from all objects. But shadow is a more powerful agent than light, for it can impede and entirely deprive bodies of their light, while light can never entirely expel shadow from a body, that is from an opaque body. Leonardo da Vinci, Six Books on Light and Shade
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light. ibid.
A shadow may be infinitely dark, and also of infinite degrees of absence of darkness. The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow. ibid.
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar