"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live; she read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die."
Annie Dillard, The Living (via thebronzemedal)
"I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible."
John Steinbeck (via forgivethelost)
(via beforeiloveandleaveyou)
"
I am dying
because you have not
died for me
and the world
still loves you.
I write this because I know
that your kisses
are born blind
on the songs that touch you.
I don’t want a purpose
in your life
I want to be lost among
your thoughts
the way you listen to New York City
when you fall asleep.
— Leonard Cohen
"(via kirschkids)
(via lexluthr)
An Existential Life: All man’s alibi’s are unacceptable: no gods are responsible for his...
All man’s alibi’s are unacceptable: no gods are responsible for his condition; no original sin; no heredity and environment; no race, no caste, no father and no mother; no wrong-headed education, no governess, no teacher; not even an impulse or a disposition, a complex or a childhood trauma….
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
Carl Jung (via sarmander)
(Source: greatbigouterspacedunce, via rhinestonesandrubies)
"
Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
"Hazrat Inayat Khan (via rhemmie)
(Source: clavicola, via applestoartemis)
"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
Rumi (via inspiri)
(via highs-and-lows)
"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."
Josephine Hart (via mindplayintricks)
"Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers."
Franz Kafka (via willcrabb)
(via jesuisperdu)
"Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Rumi (via eternalconsciousness)
(via khuenaten)
"Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?
Love is a shadow…
Listen, these are its hooves."
Sylvia Plath (via thesaltwaternight)
(Source: sleepinginthesnow, via thesaltwaternight)
"Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths."
Carl Jung
"I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted … the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked."
Edvard Munch (via cassket)
"Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I’m not anxious, I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic — seeing the car just as it hits you."
Augusten Burroughs (via cassket)
