May 2013
51 posts
“That I couldn’t conceive a position in which life would not be a misery, that we...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via substantia-nigra)
Larmoyante: Mantra to Overcome Depression →
larmoyante:
Vitamin D. Sunlight. Go outside. Get a good night
of sleep. Not too good.
Not shades drawn forever good. Not like you used to. Open the windows. Buy more houseplants. Breathe. Meditate. (One day, you will no longer be afraid of being alone with your thoughts.) Exercise. Actually exercise
“And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
– Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder, trans. D. M. Thomas (via proustitute)
“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and...”
– Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights 1847 (via hollyreads)
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via nc-17)
“I have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via femme-ex-machina)
“Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to...”
– Haruki Murakami (via weareofoneblood)
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing...”
– Don Miguel Ruiz (via wendesgray)
“All that we did was human,
stupid, easily forgiven,
Not quite right.”
― Gary...”
– (via journalofanobody)
“Tell me, my dearest
now when I listen
to your heart beating,
when I drink...”
– Tell Me, Anna Swir (From Talking To My Body)
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
– E.E. Cummings (via meant-to-live-free)
“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me...”
– Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (via larmoyante)
“Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they...”
– Warsan Shire, Day Twenty One (via the-reluctant-optimist)
“For My Birthday
Thirty two times I went out into my life,
each time causing...”
– Yehuda Amichai (via lightningsparrowproductions)
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via exolescere)
nyxxisnite:
“Man cannot be sometimes slave and sometimes free; he is wholly and forever free or he is not free at all.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
“We understood each other on other levels of madness”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via trouble—ontheway)
“We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought...”
– Jack Kerouac’s On The Road (via matualication)
“There’s nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can’t miss a day of it,...”
– Frank O’Hara (via gwendolphin)
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via maloupetitpied)
invisible owl: Be careful of words, even the... →
tentaclefeathers:
Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects and leave not a sting but a kiss. They can be as good as fingers. They can be as trusty as the rock. you stick your bottom on. But they can be both daisies and bruises.
“Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you,
bend down my strange face to...”
– Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones (via implexica)
Radio Daze: For John →
theradiodaze:
By Anne Sexton Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind, in the commonplaces of the asylum where the cracked mirror or my own selfish death outstared me. And if I tried to give you…
“As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we...”
– Pema Chödrön (via valhallanow)
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a...”
– Pema Chodron (via nicoleevafraser)
“Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our...”
– Pema Chodron (via lovemorefearless)
“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”
– Pema Chodron (via pleaselookaftermyghost)
thef0rgottenstory:
“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons, our nights, our bodies spilled together, sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever. Your leg, my leg, your arm, my arm, your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.”
— Charles Bukowski
“The truth is that the Argentinian is an individual, not a citizen. Aphorisms...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Our Poor Individualism (via speakmnemosyne)
“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of...”
– José Ortega y Gasset
(via tetatet)
“If we wish to characterize the most pure and perfect, we say “a woman”; if we...”
– Judge William Either/Or II
The last few posts have had a certain slant to them, so the next few will offer a more charitable view of women. (via sorensays)
“you think i’m not a goddess?
try me.
this is a torch song.
touch me and...”
– margaret atwood, helen of troy does countertop dancing. (via dowries)
“The wind dying, I find a city deserted, except for crowds of people moving and...”
– Keith Waldrop, “Poet” (via proustitute)
“It is always what I have already said : always the wish that you may find...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
(via intimatetelepath)
“So much human cruelty is simply incidental is simply brainless. Simply no common...”
– Anne Carson, Red Doc> (via proustitute)
“There is a close link between insomnia and despair. The loss of hope comes with...”
– E. M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair, trans. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston (via proustitute)
“In the end the early departed have no longer
need of us.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies (via proustitute)
“You seem to detect a contradiction between the terms ‘memory’ and ‘imagination.’...”
– Edmond Jabès, From the Book to the Book, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
“You move within range of my words
you land on the dry shore
You find what...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “Circe/Mud Poems” in Selected Poems I (via proustitute) 