February 2012
“The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.”
– Khalil Gibran (via paperlover)
January 2012
“The mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos...”
– Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (via pointofitall)
“People change and forget to tell each other.”
– Lillian Hellman (via vashti)
“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It’s like...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Not just beautiful, though. The stars are like the trees in the forest, alive...”
– Kafka On The Shore (via harukimurakami) (via mihomeow)
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T. S. Eliot (via dollfaceloveryeah)
“here’s nothing like being young
and starving,
living in a roominghouse and...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and...”
– Shauna Niequist (via anditslove)
“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath (via bookmania)
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– warm bodies by isaac marion (via grimosemavier)
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via teachingliteracy)
“I read somewhere..how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong.. but...”
– Into the Wild (via sorrowneverfades)
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“And if I stay with you
Do you believe that I’ll pull through?”
– Blackfield
“There are indeed many precautions to imprison a man in what he is, as if we...”
– Sartre, Being and Nothingness: V. Patterns of Bad Faith (via mutualaddiction)
“This accidental
meeting of possibilities
calls itself I.
I ask: what am I...”
– Dag Hammarskjöld (via whiskey river)
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 (via bookmania)
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose...”
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent (via honeyforthehomeless)
“You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on...”
– — Norwegian Wood (via crmerry)
“After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, from “The Quiet World” (via the-final-sentence)
“I will show that there is no speech without a response, even if speech meets...”
– Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink (via proustitute)
“What happens when that hard coating you’ve developed to protect the most...”
– Heat Wave (Chapter X)
“I know you felt it
the surge of life and passion
the instant we met.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
– Anaïs Nin (via karenkristie)
“He doesn’t like to display his feelings, and would rather seem heartless than...”
– Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (via petalsquotesandthorns)
“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
– Edgar Allen Poe (via notjustquotes)
“it’s so easy to die long before the fact of it”
– charles bukowski (via mackenzieburroughs)
“The balance is not in the stillness
but the way
the water pours from you
as...”
– Paavo Haavikko, from “Trees, Their Legacy of Green,” trans. Richard Sieburth (via ekphora) (via proustitute)
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”
– Benjamin Franklin (via frambuesas)
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny & Zooey. Salinger died two years ago today. (via doubledaybooks)
“For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used...”
– Franz Kafka (via aloneinthenewspollution)
“So many unsaid things collect in the soul, so much exhaustion and irritation lie...”
– Dmitri Schostakovich (Testimony)
“My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood...”
– James Joyce (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn’t understand me,...”
– The Stranger by Albert Camus (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Married life was great, I said. But that’s never really the question is it? Two...”
– Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (via harukimurakami)
“If Death is your father, you don’t ever have to worry about what part of his...”
– Echo by Francesca Lia Block (via thechocolatebrigade) 