“A shadow never sees the sun.”

“One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.”

Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer

“Remember that the sun doesn’t belong more to a man than to you. Never let yourself to be put in the shadow.”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

“you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.”

Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) American writer

“Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

“A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“If you come out of the sun the german will never see you coming.”

Douglas Bader (1910–1982) British World War II flying ace

“For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake
That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there
But never yet hath dipt into the abysm”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer