I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
Sophocles
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from... →
Bruce Sterling
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.
Julius Streicher
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
Tomas Transtromer
A little man often cast a long shadow.
G. M. Trevelyan