July 2012
“There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action....”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via zhaozhou)
“Psychiatry taught me that you have to come up with your own version of neurotic...”
– John Waters (via emptyvesselsloudestsounds)
“I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was...”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (via moonii)
“I feel my heart ache, but I’ve forgotten what that feeling means.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via durianquotes)
“think about how someday we’ll swim through the constellations with hope frothing...”
– Megan Madgwick (via beryl-azure)
“If you’re dating a writer and they don’t write about you — whether it’s good or...”
– Jamie Anne Royce (via modernmethadone)
“I remember hours of silver and light by the rivers, my companion’s hand on my...”
– Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud (via monocled—misanthrope)
“It’s beautiful when you find someone that is in love with your mind. Someone...”
– (via paulynyluap)
“To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries (December 4, 1913)
“I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe...”
– The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (via thechocolatebrigade)
“And a softness came from the starlight and filled me
full to the bone.”
– W. B. Yeats, from “The Wanderings of Oisin” (via litverve)
“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (via thegirlandherbooks)
“Between the word and the thought my being exists.”
– Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life, trans. Idra Novey (via proustitute)
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it...”
– Georgia O’Keeffe (via larmoyante)
“love is a horse with a broken
leg
trying to stand
while 45,000 people
watch”
– Charles Bukowski (via thechocolatebrigade)
“You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted (via honeyforthehomeless)
“‘I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies,...”
– Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, page 101.
(via kenny-price)
“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
– Voltaire (via ridingsidesaddle)
“I do not want to be fixed, to be pinioned. I tremble, I quiver, like the leaf in...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via mirroir)
“Everything in life is nonsense. It’s just a question of perspective.”
– The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (via whrrthvwls)
“I don’t know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It’s the...”
– Richard Siken, in an interview with Legacy Russell (via mitochondria)
“Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have...”
– Elliot Perlman (via thechocolatebrigade)
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In...”
– The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me you’d better go.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Beautiful and Damned (via anditslove)
“I want to see all the parts of you, even the ones you are ashamed of.”
– Louis (via anditslove)
“A breath of music or of a dream, of something that would make me almost feel,...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via thehiddenabyss)
“This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is...”
– Theodore Roethke, from “The Waking” (via proustitute)
“I only wanted
To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.”
– Tulips by Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not...”
– Azar Nafisi (via thatkindofwoman)
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (via beautyisanillusion)
“It’s the loneliest feeling in the world; to find yourself standing up when...”
– Anonymous (via d-istances)
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via subtle-body)
“Please,” she said, “Tell me what you’re thinking.”
It’s an absurd request. Our...”
– Jonathan Tropper (via monocled—misanthrope)
“She longed to return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place;...”
– Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.
“A long time ago I abandoned someone I shouldn’t have, someone I loved more than...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on The Shore (via floatingonatidalwave)
“His gentleness was unaffected by his pain. He didn’t speak of the pain, never a...”
– The Lover by Marguerite Duras (via thechocolatebrigade)
