#shadows

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it. ↗

— Ariana Franklin

#art

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. ↗

— Evita Peron

#mirror #see #shadows #sun #themselves

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#darker #feelings #our #shadows #simpler

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. ↗

— Jean Racine

#covering #even #eyes #gloomy #hell

A child can escape the shadows. ↗

— Steve Largent

#escape #shadows

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about. ↗

— Steve Israel

#borders #currently #immigrants #know #live

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#darkened #dawn #enough #every #life

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

#face #fall #shadows #sun #turn

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ceases #deprived #enjoyed #just #light