“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode
in the blissful repose of nothingness.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1987.
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Posts Tagged With: Kindness
advice for troubled times
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that
within me there lay an invincible summer.”
~ Albert Camus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Affectionate, Aware, Caring, Charitable, Comforting, Compassion, Concerned, Consideration, Digital Imagery, Empathetic, Giving, Good Natured, Gracious, Heart, Helpful, Kindness, Life, Love, Loving, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sensitive, Sympathetic, Understanding, Warm-Hearted
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all this paradise
“Think of what a paradise this world would be
if men were kind and wise.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Ears, Emotions, Empathy, Eyes, Generosity, Heart, Kindness, Life, Love, Nightmare, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Trees, Understanding, Warmth
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que sais-je?
“Je pense, donc je suis.”
~ René Descartes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris, taken in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chance, Circumstance, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Galaxies, Gentle, Heart, Heaven, Hell, History, Humanity, Kindness, Knowledge, Life, Love, Meaning, Michel de Montaigne, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purpose, Reality, René Descartes, Spirit, Think, Universe
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la malédiction
“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”
~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Barbarians, Civilised, Compassion, Creation, Cultured, Cursed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Discarded, Environment, Experiment, Future, History, Humans, Kindness, Life, Mayhem, Murder, No Deposit No Return, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Time, Violence
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ces vieilles mains
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.
It was my other hand.”
~ William S. Burroughs ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles
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ONE HEART SHARED
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
~ Lord Byron ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Entwined, Fair, Heart, Kindness, Life, Love, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shared, Words
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RAVEN BLACK
“You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.”
~ Joshua Winning ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absinthe, Belittle, Black, Compensate, Cure, Darkness, Destroy, Digital Imagery, Disease, Emotions, Fantasies, Feckless, Forgiveness, Hate, Heart, Hostility, Hurt, Kindness, Lash, Pain, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Raven, Revenge, Strike, Torment, Truth, Understanding, Vitriol, Wrongs
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THESE DARK DAYS
“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
~ Plato ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bounty, Care, Concern, Conscience, Darkness, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Empathy, Fear, Future, Harvest, Hatred, Heart, Ignorance, Kindness, Life, Light, Limits, Love, Perspective, Photography, Plentiful, Poetry, Positive, Rich, Safe, Seeds, Shared, Sickness, Strong, Time, Understanding
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ADVICE FOR TROUBLED TIMES
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that
within me there lay an invincible summer.”
~ Albert Camus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2011.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Affectionate, Aware, Caring, Charitable, Comforting, Compassion, Concerned, Consideration, Digital Imagery, Empathetic, Giving, Good Natured, Gracious, Heart, Helpful, Kindness, Life, Love, Loving, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sensitive, Sympathetic, Understanding, Warm-Hearted
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A DEAD ROSE
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
old Time is still a-flying:
and this same flower that smiles to-day,
to-morrow will be dying.”
~ Robert Herrick ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in November 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belief, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Favour, Forgiveness, Friendship, Hate, Kindness, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resentment, Rose, Shadows, Time, Truth
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LA MALÉDICTION
“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”
~ Gustave Flaubert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Barbarians, Civilised, Compassion, Creation, Cultured, Cursed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Environment, Experiment, Future, History, Humans, Kindness, Life, Mayhem, Murder, Past, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Time, Violence
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QUE SAIS-JE?
“Je pense, donc je suis.”
~ René Descartes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris taken in June 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
CES VIEILLES MAINS
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.
It was my other hand.”
~ William S. Burroughs ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles
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CHARON’S OBOL
“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”
~ Tim Buckley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Charon's Obol, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Ferryman, Kindness, Life, Love, Memories, Misery, Night, Oblivion, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Struggle, Styx. Coin, Time, Underworld, Viaticum
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NEMESIS
“History has a Nemesis for every sin.”
~ Theodor Mommsen ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Dark Ages, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intolerance, Kindness, Life, Love, Nemesis, Oblivion, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Selfishness, Shadows, Street Art, Time, Tribalism
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ALL THIS PARADISE
“An intelligent hell would be better
than a stupid paradise.”
~ Victor Hugo ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Ears, Emotions, Empathy, Eyes, Generosity, Heart, Kindness, Life, Love, Nightmare, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Trees, Understanding, Warmth
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