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Shadows Quotes

On the unpolished, the hidden, and what lingers just out of sight.

Several lines recall an imperfect but sincere old television show, valued more for its characters than its polish. Read more in our Mystery quotes.

You can be precious about something like 'Blair Witch' and say, 'How dare you approach it as a sequel or remake' or whatever, but its legacy was so tarnished by 'Book of Shadows' that someone had to come in and...

Quotes by Adam Wingard

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.

Quotes by William J. Mann

With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.

Quotes by William J. Mann

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Quotes by William Cowper

Darkness Quotes

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

'Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its love songs are gender-neutral, the members have declined to appear in their own videos, and you'd be hard-pressed...

Quotes by Will Hermes

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked...

Quotes by Tony Iommi

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Quotes by Thomas Hooker

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

Depth Quotes

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

Quotes by Thomas Browne

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

Quotes by Theodore Dreiser

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

Quotes by Thayer David

Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.

Quotes by Terrance Hayes

A child can escape the shadows.

Quotes by Steve Largent

Emotion Quotes

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.

Quotes by Steve Israel

'Shadows' wasn't so difficult to get made.

Quotes by Seymour Cassel

My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it...

Quotes by Seth Grahame-Smith

Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence.

Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

The living experience of film only happens when a film is seen, and only within the spectator, because they project their own fears, desires, and fantasies upon those lights and shadows.

Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

Mystery Quotes

Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows. There is nothing there; it is the brain that is decoding those things. The film doesn't have any...

Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Shadows collection include?
It mixes a specific pop-culture reference — the gothic soap opera 'Dark Shadows' — with more poetic, abstract uses of shadow as a metaphor for hidden truth and motive.
What do the 'Dark Shadows' quotes say about the show?
One admits the show was sometimes inadvertently funny despite missed lines and falling tombstones, while another credits it as the spark that lit the fire of childhood imagination — both are described as genuine reactions to that specific series, not general television commentary.
Is there a more philosophical use of 'shadow' here?
Yes, one line contrasts "the light of lights" that looks always on the motive with "the shadow of shadows" that looks only on the deed — a distinction between judging intention versus judging action alone.
Does the collection touch on conviction or belief?
One quote describes ceremony leading bigots forth prepared to fight for "shadows of no worth," while eternal truths struggle to find a single friend — a warning about people rallying around empty causes rather than substance.
Why do people search for shadow quotes?
Shadows work well as a metaphor for mystery, hidden motive, or the parts of a story left unresolved — themes that run through both the pop-culture and poetic lines here.

Others turn more poetic, contrasting the shadow of a deed with the motive that truly defines it. Explore Darkness quotes for related themes.