The world of shadows

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." -Carl Jung

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

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

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Elizabeth Bowen

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