April 2012
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via ohhhkat)
March 2012
“… “My thoughts,” said the wanderer to his shadow, “should show me where I stand;...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche. Delight in blindness. 287. Book Four. The Gay Science. (via seeyoulateraggregator)
“If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.”
– Goethe, Faust (via naturae-filius)
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in...”
– Deepak Chopra (via blua)
“There is nothing that controls our thoughts
more than what we think we see,...”
– Cole Swensen, from “In a Garden of Numbers” (via proustitute)
“Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying (via vomitpink)
“The true opponent, the enfolding boundary, is the player himself.”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via honeyforthehomeless)
“when I have a poem accepted by a magazine that prints so-called quality poetry,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive...”
– Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free (via exxuberance)
“‘Sir,’ said I, ‘or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is, I...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via wunderkiste)
“and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever...”
– Charles Bukowski (via wordstodieby)
“I threw my life away
And for what?”
“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”
– Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (via awritersruminations)
“After I reached my teens I decided I didn’t want to hang out with anyone. I...”
– Kurt Cobain (via vanhellig)
“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere...”
– Socrates (via philosophy-quotes)
“… But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche. On The Tarantulas. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. (via seeyoulateraggregator)
“People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it...”
– Inayat Khan (via oceanofmind)
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry...”
– Dead Poets Society (via musclesbetter)
“One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via ninefoldgoddess)
“Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Wild Geese” (via nyx-nb)
“but I do like
the music of language
the curl of the unexpected
word
the...”
– Bukowski (via wordsbuttheyfallfarbelow)
“Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your...”
– I Wrote This For You (via creatingaquietmind)
“It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world - it’s the American way of...”
– Henry Miller (via chzane)
“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”
– Henry Miller (via saloandseverine)
“But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater...”
– Albert Camus (The Fall)
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via asterisk-)
“somewhere, i know
the feeling of
never.”
– Dana Silvercrest (via beryl-azure)
“i allowed myself to be led. i allowed myself to be drawn by the soft pleading of...”
– Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram (via beryl-azure)
“The heart was made to be broken.”
– Oscar Wilde. (via doubledaybooks)
“…and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
– Shel Silverstein (via roygbivdash)
“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the...”
– John D. Rockefeller (via daisysnotebook)
“The horror of no action is greater than the scorch of pain.”
– Charles Bukowski (via wordstodieby) 