→ May 2013 "I wanted to marry an absence."
— Thomas James, from “Longing for Death”
(Source: awritersruminations)
→ May 2013 "We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell."
— Franz Kafka
(Source: meloncauliflower, via meloncauliflower)
→ May 2013 "People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?"
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
(Source: hcdragon)
→ May 2013
Bewildering loneliness. I’ve lost the art of being alone.
→ May 2013 "As sure as clocks are bleeding time,
We’ll show up early just to wait in line." — Modest Mouse, Autumn Beds (No One’s First, and You’re Next)
We’ll show up early just to wait in line." — Modest Mouse, Autumn Beds (No One’s First, and You’re Next)
(Source: seven-ply-forest, via modestesouris)
→ May 2013 "‘I am three women,’ he heard her say, and it was as if she were speaking to him from the top of a deep well into which he was falling. ‘I who was; I who had no right to be but was; I am the woman who you have saved.’"
— Stephen King. “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”
(Source: fuckyeah-unclesteve)
