January 2012
“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via billowy)
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.”
– Epictetus (via deadmendontwearplaid)
“Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.”
“Hell,” I said, “I love you...”
– A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway (via itsherfactory)
“Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.”
– Tilopa (via trua)
lueurs:
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The Smiths
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have...”
– C. Joybell C. (via venebelle)
“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else...”
– David Levithan (via danseurs)
“Love is natural and real
But not for such as you and I, my love”
– The Smiths - I know it’s over (via lovelybluepony)
“Your eyes make me shy.”
– Anaïs Nin (via horreure, quotewhore) (via brigittew)
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
– Sylvia Plath (via schutz-kontakt)
“I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I...”
– Marguerite Duras (via intramuro)
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed...”
– Charles Bukowski (via moldavia)
“Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a...”
– Rumi (via moonhymns)
“Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the...”
– Martha Beck (via larmoyante)
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via i-ngenue)
“You are who you are when nobody’s watching.”
– Stephen Fry (via coffeestainedcashmere)
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of...”
– Plato (via honeychurch)
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? … Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via human-voices)
“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus (via human-voices)
“Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything...”
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via funeral)
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the...”
– Earl Nightingale (via funeral)
“I was blessed with the inability to grow up and adapt to this society.”
– Craig Junjulas (via funeral)
6-word short stories
smokeflowers:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. -Ernest Hemingway
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time -Alan Moore
Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. -Richard Powers
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. -Orson Scott Card
Longed for him. Got him. Shit. -Margaret Atwood
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. -Vernor Vinge
“I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon,...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via mongrelminds)
“Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to...”
– Paulo Coelho (via dailydoseofquotes)
“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break...”
– Anaïs Nin (via thenocturnals)
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
– Lemony Snicket (via audreylostinparis)
