novembre 2011
1 tag
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give...
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest
1 tag
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
– Henry David Thoreau
1 tag
That was one of the saddest things about people—their most important thoughts...
– Alexandra Adornetto (Halo)
1 tag
Some days it was better to stay in bed with the covers pulled up.
– Charles Bukowski
1 tag
Music While Drowning
There were moments when the black river put a yoke on all my powers. I saw the small waters large and the gentle shores steep and high. Turning, I fought and heard the waters within me, the good and beautiful black waters— then I breathed golden strength again. The river flowed, rigid and strong.
Poem by Egon Schiele, originally in German
1 tag
I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we...
– Shirley MacLaine
1 tag
dark waters and deep oceans. water pachyderms and deep resounding bellies....
– (via silentsouls)
1 tag
For my total life, I am comfortable being in black, not in the light. Quietness.
– Yohji Yamamoto
1 tag
She had seen those eyes
dark with brooding anger and cold as ice,
she’d...
– L.J. Smith (The Strange Power, The Possessed, The Passion)
octobre 2011
1 tag
Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension,...
– T.S. Eliot
1 tag
I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness,...
– Charles Bukowski
1 tag
I can’t take back the things I never did.
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
1 tag
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...
– Sigmund Freud
1 tag
I know even with the seams stitched tightly, darling, scars will remain.
– La Dispute
1 tag
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for...
– (via sacraments)
1 tag
we have come
so far
and gone
nowhere.
we have lived
so long
and
hardly...
– Charles Bukowski
1 tag
The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
– Oscar Wilde
1 tag
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and...
– Oscar Wilde
1 tag
I was away, I don’t know where, lying on the floor, pretending I was dead.
– Richard Siken, Crush
1 tag
How embarrassing to be human.
– Kurt Vonnegut