“I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.”

“I am the immense shadow of my tears”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

“I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.”

Angela Carter book The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

“I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:
And yet I am, and live with shadows tost”

John Clare (1793–1864) English poet

“I am that shadow on the threshold
defending my remnant peace.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
You are deceived, my substance is not here;”

William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 1

“I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

“I am Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades. I control the shadows. They do not control me.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology