January 2012
“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of...”
– Nicholas Sparks (via oceaniceyes)
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via frivolousandreckless)
“She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew...”
– Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via frivolousandreckless)
Happy Chinese New Year!
thegossipgamer:
“Even if I now saw you
Only once,
I would long for you
Through worlds,...”
– Izumi Shikibu (via frivolousandreckless)
Photo by Jim Richardson, Scotland
“When suddenly, out of nowhere, this guy with Mohawk hair and a leather jacket walked into my viewfinder. I never saw him coming at all. Hardly had a chance to pop my head over the camera to see if what I was seeing in the viewfinder was, in fact, real when he pulled out a loaf of white bread and started feeding Rusty and Tufty, who seemed to be well...
“I want a trouble-maker for a lover,
Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of...”
– From Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“And it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom...”
– David Foster Wallace (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.
To think,...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, December 21st, 2002 (via frivolousandreckless)
“I need to rebel against myself. It’s the opposite of following your bliss. I...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via zenlikeme)
“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live...”
– Normant Vincent Peale (via dealll)
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? … Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to...”
– Celia Bown (The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern)
“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
– Emil Cioran (via comfortably-dumb)
“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– RELEVANT Magazine - 11 Things to Know at 25(ish)
“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, from “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (via weissewiese)
“We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the...”
–
Rainer Maria Rilke, in “Letters to a Young Poet”
(via weissewiese)
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose...”
– Roald Dahl (via tokiwoki)
