Afraid of your own shadow? Here are some quotes and proverbs about shadow and shade.
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A human being is only breath and shadow.Sophocles
A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
All that is gold does not glitter,J.R.R. Tolkien
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.
Big trees cast more shadow than fruit.
Even the white lily casts a shadow.
Every fly has its shadow.
February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.Gladys Hasty Carroll
From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.You need to work to get results.
Great trees give more shade than fruit.
He is afraid of his own shadow.
He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow.
He who sits in the shade won't take an axe to the tree.
If you are eager to be in the shadow, leave your axe at home.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.William Blake
In the cherry blossom's shade, there's no such thing as a stranger.Issa
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.Charles Dickens
Source: Great Expectations
January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,Edgar Fawcett
A frost-mailed warrior
striding a shadowy steed of snow.
Nobody can rest in his own shadow.
Old sins cast long shadows.
Our shadow will follow us.
Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick; a shadow on the wall.(unknown author)
Source: Game of Thrones
Quoted: Varys
So the man, so his shadow.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.Warren Buffett
SuddenlyThe Beatles
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Source: Lyrics: Yesterday
The cedar spreads his dark-green layers of shade.Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Cranford
The shadow should be the same length as the body.
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.Haruki Murakami
The sun never saw any shadow.Leonardo da Vinci
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.Michelangelo
There's nothing I admire more than someone planting trees...(unknown author)
...under whose shade they may never get to sit.
Source: Quote from film: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Though he was only a black shadow in the gleam of his own eyes, Bilbo could see or feel that he was tense as a bowstring, gathered for a spring.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 5 - Riddles in the Dark
About Gollum.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,J.R.R. Tolkien
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.Jane Austen
Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you.Be optimistic. Think positively.
When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.Austin O'Malley
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.J.R.R. Tolkien
