„Shadow is an amazing subject. Shadow is an absence. As an absence of energy you can compare it to silence or maybe cold air…. We talk about photography being simple and architecture being complex and how do you convey something that is more deep, that allows you to dream or think This is weird so you start to dream and think and you maybe go out purely from the picture but into yourself. The light and the shadow are tools to allow you to do that.“

„When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn’t that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours.“

—  Raymond Carver American short story author and poet 1938 - 1988

„How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.“

—  Neal Shusterman American novelist 1962

Zdroj: UnWholly

„Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.“

—  Frank Herbert, kniha Dune

Zdroj: Dune

„In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left…with a foolish grin.“

—  Emil M. Cioran, kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

„Maybe instead of stalking her, you should go out with someone else."

He sighed. "You don't think I've tried? How can anyone compare? You might not believe this, but there is no one like Ageline at this school.“

—  Richelle Mead, kniha The Fiery Heart

Zdroj: The Fiery Heart

„Every relationship starts out with a dream of what you think it's going to be, and you either have the tool kit when you get to the hard spots where you'll make it through, or you need to move on.“

—  Susan Sarandon American actress 1946

As quoted in "Susan Sarandon On 'Jeff Who Lives At Home'" in The Daily Beast (16 March 2012) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/16/susan-sarandon-on-jeff-who-lives-at-home-limbaugh-the-gop-tim-robbins-and-more
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„Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body.“

—  Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

III Six books on Light and Shade
Kontext: Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body. Shadow is of the nature of darkness. Light is of the nature of a luminous body; one conceals and the other reveals. They are always associated and inseparable from all objects. But shadow is a more powerful agent than light, for it can impede and entirely deprive bodies of their light, while light can never entirely expel shadow from a body, that is from an opaque body.

„Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.“

—  Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976

Swimming advice to physician Zhisui Li (1966), quoted in The TIME 100 (13 April 1998) http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mao.html

„If you have not even dreamed
Of benefiting yourself
Before dreaming of this for sentient beings,
How could you be of benefit to others?“

—  Šantidéva 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar 685 - 763

Attributed

„Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.“

—  Richelle Mead, kniha Mrazivý polibek

Zdroj: Frostbite

„It was the building from the drawing in my brain.
And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.“

—  James Patterson American author 1947

Zdroj: The Angel Experiment

„And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop
yourself from dreaming.“

—  Jenny Han American writer 1980

Zdroj: It's Not Summer Without You

„If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.“

—  Joyce Meyer American author and speaker 1943

„What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.“

—  Haruki Murakami, kniha Kafka na pobřeží

Zdroj: Kafka on the Shore

„Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.“

—  Jane Yolen, kniha The Devil's Arithmetic

Zdroj: The Devil's Arithmetic (1988), p. 143

„If you put it as “complex nervous systems” it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you to do astrophysics… to write poetry… to fall in love. Put under that description, when asked “What’s so special about humans…?”, I’m at a loss to know how to answer that question. If you don’t see why we’d be special… because we can do poetry [and] think philosophical thoughts [and] we can think about the morality of our behavior, I’m not sure what kind of answer could possibly satisfy you at that point.
…I could pose the same kinds of questions of you… So God says, “You are guys are really, really special.” How does his saying it make us special? “But you see, he gave us a soul.”“

—  Shelly Kagan American philosopher 1956

How does our having a soul make us special? Whatever answer you give, you could always say… “What’s so special about that?”
Debate: Is God Necessary for Morality? (2011)

„If you can't sleep, I'll be there in your dreams. I'll be there in your dreams if you can't sleep at all.
And in your dreams, I'll touch your cheek
And lay my head on your shoulder.
Goodbye shadows“

—  Zooey Deschanel American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter 1980

"If You Can't Sleep".
Volume Two (2010)

„You tell yourself a dream, always. And when do you dream it?“

—  Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968

Si yo te diera la vida, ¿qué podría darte?
Voces (1943)

„I wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it gets… Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.“

—  David Lynch American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor 1946

Zdroj: Lynch on Lynch