#shadows

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#centuries #chance #cry #emerge #freedoms

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. ↗

— Roger Waters

#blind #body #death #dim #fall

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#always #audience #back #doing #front

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#important #know #shadows #you

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#extraordinarily #figuring #how #infinite #job

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. ↗

— Junichiro Tanizaki

#dark #find #itself #light #only

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! ↗

— O. Henry

#business #family #love #man #nothing

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. ↗

— David Hockney

#chinese #course #deals #i #knew

To think of shadows is a serious thing. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#shadows #thing #think

To contemplate is to look at shadows. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#look #shadows