In the forgotten place of my mind

I don't sleep, I just dream.

[philosophybits]

“There is only one inborn erroneous notion… that we exist in order to be happy. So long as we persist in this inborn error… the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence… hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of disappointment.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

[quotemadness]

“Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.”

— David Levithan

[quotemadness]

“I want to be the last person who ever kisses you… That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I’m trying to say is, you’re it. This is it for me.”

— Rainbow Rowell

[quotemadness]

“…I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[quotemadness]

“I love you—I do—but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me. We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.”

— David Levithan

[quotemadness]

“You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.”

— Virginia Woolf

[philosophybits]

“The pursuit of philosophy is founded on the belief that knowledge is good, even if what is known is painful.”

— Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

[quotemadness]

“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[sweetestsecrets]

“I’m floating in an ocean of pain. Not floating—but swimming, badly—no style. But not sinking.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 (via weltenwellen)

[quotemadness]

“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

[quotemadness]

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

— C.S. Lewis

[quotemadness]

Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

David Levithan (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“We’re neither pure; nor wise; nor good; we do the best we know.”

— Voltaire

[quotemadness]

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

— Sam Levenson

[quotemadness]

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn’t.

James Frey (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

I hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you’re feeling like hell and expect you to say ‘fine’.

Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

Have you ever met someone, spent less than thirty minutes with them and thought ‘I could easily love you’

Donte Collins (via quotemadness)