Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

— Unknown Source

Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

— Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016

Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses, and memories.

— Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016

Shadow owes its birth to light.

— John Gay, English poet and dramatist, 1685-1732

Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow.

— From poem, The Hollow Men, by T.S. Eliot, British writer, literary and social critic who renounced his U.S. citizenship, 1888-1965

Coming events cast their shadows before.

— Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet, co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and an initiator of what became the University College London, 1777-1844
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