May 2013
54 posts
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull...”
– Virginia Woolf (via dearscience)
“Whatever comes, let it come,
what stays let stay,
what goes
let go.”
– Papaji (via barbieandken)
“You won’t do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via larmoyante)
“None of us can take back what we’ve done in the past, the most meaningful...”
– Penny Beernsten (via absea)
“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via larmoyante)
“Please try not to need me. That’s the worst bait of all to a lonely man.”
– Lee, East of Eden by John Steinbeck (via literaryquotations)
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
– Clementine Paddleford (via blua)
“what doesn’t kill you
leaves scars
ruins your lungs
dries out all your tears...”
– c.c. (via urbanzakapalatte)
“I know—better than anyone—that once someone’s made up their mind to leave you,...”
– Terra Elan McVoy, Being Friends with Boys (via simply-quotes)
“Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the...”
– (via i-partywithgatsby)
“I love you— I do— but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because...”
– David Levithan, Every Day (via durianseeds)
“Sweetheart I’ve been frightfully busy but you know I have thought of you every...”
– Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Fitzgerald, March 1919 (via weepling)
“It is curious how our thoughts seem to come out of the emptiness they are tryng...”
– Richard Krause, from Epigrams (via violentwavesofemotion)
“One of the cruellest things you can do to another person is pretend you care...”
– Douglas Coupland (via delightfuls)
“The odd thing about this life is that you spend half your time trying to get...”
– Tom Waits (via moonbrains)
“Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected....”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (via efidelity)
“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.”
– A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner. (via notclarissa)
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...”
– Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (via bokura)
“I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via isolatedinhungerland)
“You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.”
– Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere (via larmoyante)
“Show me the man who isn’t interested in discussing himself.”
– Samuel Hamilton, East of Eden by John Steinbeck (via literaryquotations)
“Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via me1isssaale)
“People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to...”
– Abraham Hicks (via barbieandken)
“Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Way You’ll Never Be. (via vivasoul)
“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”
– Unknown (via senshuk)
“You are the result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success. Fucking act like...”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
“I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it...”
– Winona Ryder (via isolatedinhungerland)
“I understand that nobody understands me, but I can’t be someone I’m not.”
– Audrey Tautou (via jewishprick)
“You’re there and I’m here, and there doesn’t know how lucky it is.”
– (via stevenrosas)
“Sometimes I miss you
the way someone drowning
remembers the air.”
– Tim Seibles (via fawun)
“And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all...”
– Margaret Atwood (via c-oquetry)
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come...”
– Sigmund Freud (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“Every form of hate is self-hate.”
– Maheshvara (via fawun)
“You haven’t healed, I can tell from how cruel you are.”
– (via fakeville)
“I’m full of love, and nobody wants it.”
– Dylan Klebold (via hello-christina)
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
– Aristotle (via musiquegraphique)
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix (via thehipsterkids)
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– John Lennon (via dreaming-and-wishing)
“I know today is Monday and you assume it’s going to suck, but according to...”
– (via floricawild)
“Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude...”
– Unknown (via -killerqueen)
“Look at you. You’re young. And you’re scared. Why are you so scared? Stop being...”
– Louise Flory (via larmoyante)
“I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident—
before the...”
– Sierra DeMulder (via larmoyante)
“‘Lonely, ain’t it?’
‘Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody...”
– Toni Morrison, Sula (via larmoyante)
“Depression is a good lover. So attentive. Has this innate way of making...”
– Kait Rokowski, A Good Day” (via larmoyante)
“Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them...”
– Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside-down. Doctors...”
– Michael Ellner (via larmoyante)
“The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself.”
– Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You (via larmoyante)
“Just when I think I know her, she does a thing like that.”
– Samuel Hamilton, East of Eden by John Steinbeck (via literaryquotations)
“I love you— I do— but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because...”
– David Levithan, Every Day (via thelittleyellowdiary)
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via larmoyante) 