July 2012
61 posts
“That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill...”
– Haruki Murakami (via encornetdelalune)
“Spend five minutes cooking pasta and a whole other hour musing about it. Have...”
– Haruki Murakami (via marzemino)
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to...”
– Haruki Murakami (via sloppyfirsts)
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via girlwithoutwings)
“It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.
To think,...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, December 21st, 2002 (via seabois)
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -...”
– Stephen R Covey (via liketheopensea)
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
– Charles Bukowski (via ohmothernature)
oofpoetry:
I bought some string cheese today that expires on your birthday and thought to write you.
I was going to say that I cannot understand why your parka has not been bought from the Salvation Army yet
(it was a very good parka—it kept you warm that winter we did not have a car), but all I can think to say
is that I cannot seem to find a way to say you are gone. Brett Elizabeth...
“When Hades decided he loved this girl
he built for her a duplicate of earth,...”
– “A Myth of Devotion,” Louise Glück (via clavicola)
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any...”
– Charles Bukowski (via blua)
“But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended,...”
– Rohinton Mistry; A Fine Balance (via creatingaquietmind)
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art (via 4mbivalent)
“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via nobunnyluvsyou)
“You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed...”
– Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow (via hip-)
“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and...”
– John Green (via infinitexposure)
“In love, hold on to what is.”
– Albert Camus (via slow-riot)
“It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can’t even make the...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary (via 4mbivalent)
“I stared down at her back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to...”
– Charles Bukowski, Post Office (via blua)
“This is about my someday daughter, already stung stained with insecurity...”
–
Katie Makkai (via losefatgainfit)
“I was exactly the same age as Anne Frank. We were both 10 when war broke out and...”
– Audrey Hepburn speaking of Anne Frank’s Diary (via fuckyeahbookarts)
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
– Elbert Hubbard (via thepinesaredancing)
“Every time you feel like crying, I’m gonna try and make you laugh and if I...”
– Conor Oberst (via blua)
eloquence:
the sciences sing a lullaby by albert goldbarth
weissewiese:
Physics says: Go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: It will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean....
“Fuck smelling the roses. I’d rather plant them.”
– 5 Reasons Today Isn’t Going to Suck (via eloquence)
“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop...”
– Sarah Kay, B (via 4mbivalent)
“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And...”
– Bill Hicks (via wordsthat-speak)
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher (via creatingaquietmind)
“An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good...”
– The History of Love, Nicole Krauss (via wildthicket)
“That was one of the saddest things about people—their most important thoughts...”
– Alexandra Adornetto, Halo (via larmoyante)
“I’ve always had a terrible weakness for beautiful but sad things.”
– Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel’s Inferno (via lunardruse)
“My garden is just soil. It is ten sleeping lions long with brown fences on...”
– Ben Brooks, we aren’t really supposed to talk to bears (via saidthewhales)
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward...”
– Sri Ram (via yogachocolatelove)
“Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise...”
– Mark Amend (via quotethat)
“The universe is big. Really big. Our planet is just one of eight in orbit around...”
– Stephen Hawking (via lunardruse)
“Why do so many poets settle for so little? I don’t understand why they’re not...”
– Jack Gilbert (via eloquence)
Re:
pptchh-4knggs:
I stepped in a river, once. Long ago. As a child, which is a different perception entirely. A different human. Different eyes. Different skin, toes to taste the water with; different nose, tongue and lungs entire. The heart. The mind. A cosmos away, behind, forgotten. A different being entirely. - J.
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via infinitives)
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via esuriens)
“I used to think that if none of your family or friends knew you were dead, it...”
– Celine - Before Sunrise (via daydreamdelusion)
“We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the...”
– Dirk Wittenborn (via quotewhore)
“It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and...”
– Sofia Coppola (trying to explain what lost in translation is about)
“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”
– Louis XIV (last words)
“Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via heartmindawakening)
“All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like...”
– Jean Rhys (via jessicabrokaw)
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is...”
– Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince (via 4mbivalent)
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will.”
– John Green (via saddest-summer)
“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via badr3p)
“I want to kill everyone you know and then myself”
stop staring at me—
my body...”
– Ellen Kennedy (via honeysucklefairy)
“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why...”
– Epicurus
Oh Philosophy… 