“When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.” LifeMayMomentsSeemsLife IsSufferingBlackImaginationOur LivesBearsHorrorLowsLipsCloudsTrialsDesertInstantSubstitutesContrastDreadThirstCurtainsBrightnessTransientHeavinessRespite Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there.” IfsMayDiesPowerfulMillionsOur LivesShadowCloudsCurrentsNuclearBombsSeventiesOpposingArsenalMushrooms Author:Johann Hari
“If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.” IfsDoeSufferingFaithReligiousOur LivesSorrowClouds Author:Oswald Chambers
“It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.” BlackOur LivesSourceFairsLongingComplexesPhotographCloudsFolksInvisibilityLife And Time Author:Carrie Mae Weems