Quotes About Dimming

Whites do not realize that possessing unchecked power and control over others often results in the dimming of their own perceptiveness and leads to a distorted reality. This is because their high status and power means they (a) seldom have to worry or even think about people of color, (b) use only one another to validate their sense of a false racial reality, and (c) inaccurately define people of color from a stereotypical template.

By this time it was after half past three. The winter light was fading. Beyond

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

To ADVESPERATE  (ADVE'SPERATE)   v.n.[advespero, Lat.] To draw towards evening.Dict.

The carved wood wore into his shoulder, a reassuring discomfort. He pressed himself against it, parting the bed curtains, and with his right eye saw the light of strength dimming from a man he used to fancy was his lover.

We live in a world," he has said, "where deliberately dimming the fucking sun might be less risky than not doing it.

when the doorbell rang, there was no sense of foreboding—no dimming of the sun, no foreshadowing of the arrival of death at their door.

All over Bernie Simon's features, lights were dimming and doors politely closing.

The light is dying, as all light must.

Light was leaking out of the sky, and the fun was leaking out of the afternoon.

The evening shadows made my home look as if it were dying.

Twilight was already coagulating into night.