genius of sadness

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[quoted-books]

Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain that is thrust upon us let no man slow or speed or fix.

Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers (via quoted-books)

[larmoyante]

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. … They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation (via larmoyante)

[quoted-books]

It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

Lauren Oliver, Rooms (via quoted-books)

[venula]

Your silence hurts more than your words ever did.

Things I Never Got To Tell You, Part 50 - Mariah Gordon-Dyke (via larmoyante)

[larmoyante]

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (via larmoyante)

[zoranealeh]

Janie had no chance to know things, so she had to ask. Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

[observando]

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.

Alberto Manguel (via observando)

[dollymyfolly-deactivated2026032]

…I am profoundly unhappy. I sometimes fancy all sorts of things, that every one is laughing at me, the whole world, and then I feel ready to overturn the whole order of things.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via dollymyfolly)

[quoted-books]

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (via quoted-books)

[quoted-books]

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (via quoted-books)

[observando]

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

Sylvia Plath (via observando)

[ageniusofsadness]

We conceive of emotions as opponents (and not allies). Emotions are illnesses (and not sources of health). Emotions are forms of insanity (and not moments of understanding). We wrestle with, become ill from, and are driven mad by love, sadness, anger, guilt, shame, and even seemingly more beneficial states like amusement. The opposite locks up the Western mind: Imagine referring to anger, love, or gratitude as a friend, a form of health, or a kind of insight or clarity. We assume that emotions are lower, less sophisticated, more primitive ways of perceiving the world, especially when juxtaposed with loftier forms of reason.

Dacher Keitner, Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

[aseaofquotes]

Augusten Burroughs, This Is How

[someotherarchive-blog]

Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.

warsan shire, day twenty one. (excerpt) [x] (via someothermonstra)

[larmoyante]

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

Nicholas Sparks (via larmoyante)

[larmoyante]

I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren’t the same thing.

Maggie Stiefvater, Forever (via larmoyante)

[larmoyante]

Let’s vow to never become the monsters that we are trying to protect ourselves from

Rudy Francisco (via larmoyante)