February 2012
11 posts
“In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That...”
– Pascal Mercier
“What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you,...”
– Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending (via human-voices)
January 2012
31 posts
xeno
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
Ya’aburnee
Arabic – Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility (via pavorst)
“Kindness is invincible.”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“You are a little soul carrying a corpse around”
– Epictetus
“No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.”
– Francesca, from Canto V, Inferno, Dante
December 2011
5 posts
“Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something...”
– Bukowski
“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you...”
– Spinoza (via illuminatedbeing)
It is not so much that I miss you by Dorothea...
inspirational-writings:
It is not so much that I miss you as the remembering which I suppose is a form of missing except more positive, like the time of the blackout when fear was my first response followed by love of the dark.
November 2011
10 posts
