#sun

No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do not hate me, try to love me a little, Father; it is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured. ↗

— Rosemary Sutcliff - Sword at Sunset

#artos #medraut #mordred #sword-ad-sunset #love

You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#christ #cross-of-calvary #dark #darkness #eclipse

Passmore used his personality the way a magician used smoke. It was all for the diversion. ↗

— David B. Dacosta

#love

His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue by Greek envy. ↗

— David B. Dacosta

#love

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#great-men #hubris #humility #literature #literature-quotes

I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacrificing sense to make a phrase. Here, of course, is where even the most conscientious critic often goes aground; he is apt to be an artist before he is a scientist, and the impulse to create something passionately is stronger in him than the impulse to state something accurately. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#misrepresentation #misunderstanding #men

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conditional #conditional-love #conflict #conscience #defense

I hate being told by strange men in the street to smile, to make them feel better about their boring lives ↗

— Julie Deply "Celine"

#men

You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine! ↗

— Jason Mraz

#music #pop #shine #sunny #music

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #grimace #impersonal #impossible #light