May 2013
4 posts
“No one heals himself by wounding another.”
– St. Ambrose of Milan (via ghostghostt)
“There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favourite.”
– Iain S. Thomas (via horreure)
“I’m always thinking, always feeling, but my thoughts lack all reason, my...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet. (via froideurs)
“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via larmoyante)
“What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 July 1912 (via lonehands)
April 2013
6 posts
“I probably still haven’t adapted to the world.”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via klonazepam)
“I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave.”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (via funeraire)
“The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.”
– Charles Bukowski (via vvooovv)
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley (via the-ramblings-of-the-writers)
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
– Saul Bellow, Herzog (via sorakeem)
March 2013
10 posts
“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 ch. 19, p. 303 (via pax-caelestis)
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via moonbrains)
“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via drunkblogging)
“What makes a coat truly beautiful is that you’re so cold you can’t live without...”
– Yohji Yamamoto (via crystallizations)
“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?...”
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via belle-de-nuit)
“There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favorite.”
– Iain Thomas, The Scars You Love (via alienism)
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
– Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (via prenzlauer)
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via holyclitoris)
“We’re all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via myrtsi)
“things to avoid:
mirrors, clocks”
– JR (via tuileries)
February 2013
23 posts
“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too...”
– Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride (via dumbgrrl)
“Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?”
– Jim Jarmusch (via pomeray)
“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
– Franz Kafka (via vahc)
“You smell like a flower that is neither alive nor dead, because no one has...”
– Legături bolnăvicioase (Love Sick)
“You were unsure which pain is worse — the shock of what happened or the ache for...”
– Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After (via bonur)
“I’d woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via seabois)
“the most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one...”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via bonur)
“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public;...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
– Unknown
“Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.”
– Matt Berninger
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you,...”
– Robert Tew
“As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
– Pablo Neruda
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.”
– Saul Bellow
“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
– Fernando Pessoa
“I want to tell what the forests
were like
I will have to speak
in a...”
– W. S. Merwin, “Witness” in The Rain in the Trees
“Anyway, no one ever thinks of anyone else. Don’t let them come closer.”
– Arthur Rimbaud, Night in Hell
“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven’t had,...”
– Robert Goolrick
“I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers.”
– The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
“I have acid rain in my brain and it’s killing the flowers in my heart.”
– Marianna Paige
“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
– Anne Sexton
“The oddest things hurt me. They get stuck in my head and replay over and over.”
– Unknown
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
– Pablo Picasso
January 2013
15 posts
“I am half agony, half hope.”
– Jane Austen
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily...”
“I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”
– Albert Camus (via belle-de-nuit)
“As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary.”
– Jim Butcher (via mirroir)
“Only mystery makes us live. Only mystery.”
– Federico García Lorca, “Deep Song and Other Prose” (via littlemoono)
“I have been traversing the sunless territory of non-identity.”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new...”
– The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 