[13ths]

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via quotemadness)

[acollectionofquotations]

'There are no circumstances to which a man cannot accustom himself, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way'

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

[acollectionofquotations]

"If you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you would like them to be."

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Tell me what to live for. Tell me what you live for, so I can live for it, too—here or ten thousand kilometers from here. Tell me why you want to go on being alive, so I can go on wanting to be alive, too.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, from “Mother Night,” originally published c. 1961

[acollectionofquotations]

“When two people live in the same apartment, see each other every day, and also love each other, their conversations bring their two memories into line: by tacit and unconscious consent they leave vast areas of their life unremembered, and they talk time and time again about the same few events out of which they weave a joint narrative that, like a breeze in the boughs, murmurs above their heads and reminds them constantly that they have lived together.”

Milan Kundera, Ignorance

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I have never lied to you. And as soon as I am capable of understanding my own soul, I will tell you everything.”

— Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “Fate,”

[acollectionofquotations]

“Still, anxiety in itself is not beautiful; it is so only when one sees at the same time the energy that overcomes it.”

Soren Kierkegaard, Either/ Or

[acollectionofquotations]

“He felt all the more sorry for her beacause, although her grief was nothing serious, she was suffering deeply.”

Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk

[acollectionofquotations]

“I believe a person exists only when a place exists for them.”

Kazufumi Shiraishi, The Part Of Me That Isn’t Broken Inside

[wnq-quotes]

I get very lonely in this world with you angry at me.

Ernest Hemingway

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(via wnq-writers)

[acollectionofquotations]

“A soul could be destroyed in one of three ways: by what others did to you; by what others made you do to yourself; and by what you voluntarily did to yourself. Any single method was sufficient; though if all three were present, the outcome was irresistible”

Julian Barnes - The Noise of Time

[acollectionofquotations]

“I am besieged by such strange thoughts, such dark sensations, such obscure questions, which still crowd my mind - and somehow I have neither the strength nor the desire to resolve them.”

Dostoyevsky, White Nights

[quotemadness]

I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.

Ernest Hemingway (via sheholdsyoucaptivated)

[acollectionofquotations]

I have never been able to cope with the cravings of my heart.

Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

[natureandbeauty]

[acollectionofquotations]

“Do not consider my words as the morbid raptures of a morbid mind, but for me, you are perfection! I have seen you and I see you everyday. I do not judge you; it is not by my reason that I have come to the conclusion that you are perfection; I simply believe in it.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

[acollectionofquotations]

"For if when I speak I cannot make myself understood, I do not speak even if I keep taking without stop day and night."

Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling