October 2011
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August 2011
1 post
“I’ve never been lonely. I’ve been in a room — I’ve felt suicidal. I’ve been...”
– Charles Bukowski (via arreter)
June 2011
3 posts
“It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget.”
– Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (via Confuzzzled)
“You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that...”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via ohweweresobeautiful)
“You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say...”
– William Shakespeare (via wickeddreamsandwildmadness)
May 2011
105 posts
“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via atomos)
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I...”
– Lisa Kleypas (via atomos)
“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your...”
– “Nineteen Minutes” Jodi Picoult (via janinewins)
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very...”
– Douglas Adams (via ageofreason)
“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
– Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I...”
– David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“When I look at the lives of the poets, I understand what’s wrong with me. They...”
– Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist (via newspaperblackout)
“Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life...”
– The Remains (excerpt) by Mark Strand (via melancholynotes)
“Why, what’s the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost,...”
– Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (via melancholynotes)
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keep changing directions. You...”
– Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (via oursilences)
“What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle.
What I thought was a brick...”
– A Color of the Sky (excerpt) by Tony Hoagland (via melancholynotes)
Swimming in the kitty pool.: I wish I had more... →
To to paint.
To watch movies.
To walk around.
To catch up on TV shows.
To be somewhere… anywhere.
To eat.
To be with family.
To be with friends.
To build some things.
To hike.
To climb.
To play video games.
To make costumes for no purpose whatsoever.
To build a terrarium.
To listen…
“One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.”
– The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many...”
– Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
“Then, out of nowhere, a flock of birds flew by the window, extremely fast and...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via melancholynotes)
“The things that keep me alive are the things that keep me alone.”
– Fin Greenall (via human-voices)
“I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal...”
– Dalai Lama (via thoughtsonaleash)
henrycharlesbukowski:
“This is very important — to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you’re gonna lose everything…just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That’s why they’re all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.”
— Charles Bukowski
“It is what it is.
You are what you it.
There are no mistakes.”
– Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito (via awakeinthedream)
“All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no...”
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha (via pizzabloodstains)
“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.”
– To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was”
– Band of Horses, No one’s gonna love you (via kari-shma)
“It’s so easy to laugh, it’s so easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and...”
– The Smiths- I know it’s over (via quote-book)
“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you...”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not,
and a sense...”
– Oscar Wilde (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved...”
– Sarah Williams ‘The Old Astronomer’ (via quote-book)
“I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for...”
– The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, William S. Burroughs (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings...”
– Pierre Teilhard de chardin (via quote-book)
“Human beings have always employed an enormous amount of clever devices for...”
– John Gardner (via atomos)
“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression...”
– from Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy (via melancholynotes)
“my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore.
scraping through my head ‘till i...”
– Something I can never have, NIN (via kari-shma)
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for...”
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum, Black Sparrow Press, 1975 (via commondense) (via thecosmonaut) (via henrycharlesbukowski) (via thesteppenwolf) (via fuckyeahmiserablethings)
“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has...”
– Hermann Hesse (via quotesforintellectuals)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain (via groundfloorcreations)
“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird...”
– Victor Hugo (via girlwithoutwings)
“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (via melancholynotes)
“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can...”
– James Frey (My Friend Leonard)
“She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the...”
– Patricia A. McKillip (via fleurishes)
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely...”
– George Byron (via illuminatedbeing)
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde | bemysuperher0 (via quote-book) 