#si

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#century #colour #direct #facing #last

There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give no peace, will provide no comfort to the living. ↗

— Rebecca James

#death #depression #empty #nothingness #sad

To seek inner beauty is to meet a large woman and ask, ‘Is her liver also fat?’ Even if she is not good, the night can still be. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#beauty #obesity #beauty

My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#beauty #desire #heart #women #beauty

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour' 'Well, it's bloody close...' 'Well, they often are.... ↗

— Alan Hollinghurst

#forbidden-fruit #french #sin #beauty

She wanted to walk into a crowded restaurant where a man would look up and take her into his arms with his eyes. She wanted to know what it was like to feel that she was beautiful to someone and had been eagerly waited for ↗

— J.R. Ward

#beauty

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls. ↗

— Rosalía de Castro

#positive-outlook #beauty

I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence. ↗

— George Saunders

#nature #silence #beauty

People change, he thought -it's truism- but how? Our life is confined to days, after all: Sunday to Monday, dusk to dawn. What great alterations can take place in someone between breakfast and lunch? Is it possible to wake up as one person and fall asleep as another? ↗

— Sam Taylor

#change

...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me... ↗

— John Geddes

#compulsion #love #suffering #beauty