May 2012
“He couldn’t figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed...”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (via honeyforthehomeless)
“In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sonnets to Orpheus” (translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)
“So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the...”
– » The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good Social Justice League (via pussy-envy)
“Her absence was a perpetual torment which served to keep her image alive. I...”
– Henry Miller; Stand Still LIke The Hummingbird (via chloenoelxxvii)
“who
is invisible enough
to see you?”
– Paul Celan, from Breathturn in Selected Poems, trans. John Felstiner (via proustitute)
April 2012
“I have no troubles, I have money like a capitalist, no boss, no wife, no...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea)
“…that’s how memory works … Things disappear without your permission, then come...”
– Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue (via quotes-shape-us)
“I’ve needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is...”
– Lisa Kleypas, Because You’re Mine (via quotes-shape-us)
“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate...”
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via quotes-shape-us)
“I need you more
Than you can know
And if I hurt myself
It’s just for show”
– Porcupine Tree (via emptyvesselsloudestsounds)
“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942, “Absurd Creation”, p.103)
“When I see you it’s a beautiful world
But when you’re gone, I want you in my...”
– Joshua Radin, You Got What I Need (via quotes-shape-us)
“Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse.”
– Kelley Armstrong, The Calling (via quotes-shape-us)
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...”
– Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (via quotes-shape-us)
“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful”
– Milan Kundera (via quotes-shape-us)
“I’m sorry that I’m both your umbrella and the rain.”
– Tablo (via agonie)
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“It’s important to be smart, but it’s also important to be active with your...”
– Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, The Dirty Girls Social Club (via quotes-shape-us)
“And I longed desperately to really live for once, to give something of myself to...”
– Demian by Hermann Hesse (via thechocolatebrigade)
“The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of...”
– bell hooks (via transformfeminism)
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
– Charles Bukowski (via wellareyou)
“She didn’t do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.”
– Bukowski (via miss-she)
“Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly...”
– Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via peaceblaster)
“I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via crystalkarma)
“Things become very familiar to me so that I sometimes think humanity is a vast...”
– Virginia Woolf, Diary Entry, 9 May 1925. (via violentwavesofemotion)
“… We must constantly give birth to our thoughts out of our pain, and nurture...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche. 3. Preface. The Gay Science. (via seeyoulateraggregator)
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
– Mulan (via natalieslittleworld)
“So you make your face a mask.
A mask that hides your face.
A face that hides...”
– Bang Bang you’re dead by William Mastrosimone (via a-silent-one)
“it’s a lonely world of frightened people, just as it has always been.”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“the ungrateful world did not feel his loss, and the gap it made seemed to close...”
– Mary Shelley, Shelley’s Posthumous Poems, 1824 (via beryl-azure)
“People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean,...”
– Libba Bray
(via opaca-viarum)
“People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They...”
– Bukowski, Pulp (via roobzzz)
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions, 1937-52, trans. Ruth L.C. Simms (via proustitute)
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“I quote others only to better express myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays (via itsfromabook)
