May 2013
66 posts
if i were a caterpillar i would probably emerge from my cocoon as another slightly fatter caterpillar
“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned (via mirroir)
waterfallfish:
Ugh how do you expect me to decide what college to attend or who I want to marry or what I want to do for the rest of my life I CAN’T EVEN DECIDE WHERE TO PUT A STICKER BECAUSE PEELING OFF THE BACK AND HAVING IT STAY IN ONE PLACE FOREVER IS TOO BIG OF A COMMITMENT FOR ME TO LIVE WITH
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via ihatenietzsche)
“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via pink-bullets)
“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be...”
– Marya Hornbacher (via seabois)
“I always endowed madness with a sacred, poetic value, a mystical value. It...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin Volume I 1931-1934 (via oh-to-be-a-work-of-art)
“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever...”
– Margaret Atwood (via likeafieldmouse)
“I am myself. That is not enough.”
– Sylvia Plath (via lightdawns)
“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord...”
– Anaïs Nin (via petrichour)
“We seemed to share certain ideas about what happens in childhood, when you have...”
– The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner (via kelsfjord)
“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly...”
– Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl (via earthtreadingstars)
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty...”
– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via indicio)
“The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the...”
– John Irving, The Cider House Rules (via larmoyante)
“It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some...”
– Claudia Gray, Evernight (via skrooge)
“Because I am a woman who understands, I am asked to understand everything, to...”
– Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via larmoyante)
“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via petrichour)
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
– Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary (via petrichour)
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
– Mahatama Gandhi (via coello)
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain...”
– Stephen Jay Gould (via likeafieldmouse)
“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
– Henry David Thoreau (via seppukuu)
“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great...”
– Osho (via larmoyante)
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via coello)
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on...”
– Terry Pratchett, Diggers (via greekg0ds)
“It is practically always so painful for me to speak to other people.”
– Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, August 1883 (via mirroir)
“When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in...”
– Ingmar Bergman (via tat-art)
“When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I...”
– Patch Adams (via seabois)
