May 2012
I began to realize
how important it was
to be an enthusiast in life.
He...
– Roald Dahl (via saisonlune)
I think it’s great for two people to be together. That is a good number. I...
– Henry Rollins (via lueurs)
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.
– Jaime Gil de Bieda (via theseasonofthewitch)
you’ll be working in groups
– satan (via galehus)
Anna Akhmatova, "One Takes the Straight Line"
airwalker:
One takes the straight line, another goes in a circle and longs for the return to the parents’ house and longs for a former girlfriend. But I go, not in a straight line or in a zigzag, into nowhere and never, and disasters follow me like trains crashing off the tracks.
(via rememo)
Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us...
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via emotional-algebra)
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and...
– Mary Oliver (via carouselwitch)
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via misswallflower)
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of...
– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (via snapsforsantoro)
You have to ask yourself, ‘Does this item or thought or response move me closer...
– Peter Walsh
(via shikoomkoom)
clairesawyer:
If I was a celebrity I would go knocking on doors and be like hello yes it’s me
period-blood:
sometimes i look at random people on the train or walking down the street and wonder about their day or what they had for breakfast or where they grew up and if they’re having a good or a bad day and i wonder if people do the same to me
Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via pearljude)
You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.
– Valerie Anne Poxleitner (via iamtea-rriffic) (via quote-book) (via rememo, tearriffic-deactivated20111218-) (via nobodyshippie)
What am I like? There’s something broken in me, there’s something broken in my...
– Lara, in “Dr. Zhivago” - Pasternak (via summerpreambles)
I have always been a wretched speaker. My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and...
– : Vladimir Nabokov (via scout)
In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a...
– Don Draper (via les-jours-pluvieux)
I mean I can’t be the saint people dream of now. People want a street angel....
– from the play cowboy mouth by Patti Smith and Sam Shepard, 1971 (via redvelvetteacake)
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I...
– Haruki Murakami (via ontelbaar)
She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting...
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (via larmoyante)
We suspect that even when Libertines fall off a bar-stool and smash all their...
– NME track review for Time For Heroes (via ivegotcigarettesandtimetokill)
I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book Of Disquiet (via saisonlune)
le printemps: Louise Glück, A Myth of Devotion →
mitochondria:
When Hades decided he loved this girl he built for her a duplicate of earth, everything the same, down to the meadow, but with a bed added. Everything the same, including sunlight, because it would be hard on a young girl to go so quickly from bright light to utter darkness Gradually, he thought, he’d introduce the night,
Ik drink op mijn verwoeste huis,
Op mijn leven vol van kwaad,
Op onze gedeelde...
– De laatste toost, Anna Akhmatova (via rememo)
I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other...
– Jeanette Winterson (via growing-orbits)
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and...
– Susan Cain, Quiet (via unejeunedemoiselle)
there still might be a place
for us
somewhere.
– Charles Bukowski (via girlinlondon)
Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie,...
– Haruki Murakami (Sputnik sweetheart)
The train ride to Paris was uneventful. I realized at one point I was crying....
– Just Kids, Patti Smith (via clavicola)
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own...
– Franz Kafka