PASSERBY

"Staying alive only because death hasn't came yet."

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"Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

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Still, there is this terrible desire to be loved.

Still, there is this horror at being left behind.

— Michael Cunningham, from "The Hours," originally published c. 1998

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"I hated myself for going,

why couldn't I be the kind

of person who stays?"

— Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close".

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"I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself."

— Anna Swirszczynska

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"But why

the wind

said

should you be so distressed

as if anything here belonged to you

as if anything here were your concern"

— A. R. Ammons, "Mission"

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"I am quite troubled in the depths of my soul. But that will pass, I hope;"

—George Sand, Letter to Gustave Flaubert 6 September 1871

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"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?"

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Oskar Pollak, November 8, 1903

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"You guys seemed, still seem, in love, truly, deeply...

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love."

— Gayle Forman, If I Stay

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"I lived in the complication of supposing myself simultaneously loved and abandoned."

— Roland Barthes, from A Lover's Discourse

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"You tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that."

— Warsan Shire (via gore-pop)

– Credits to the owner.

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"submerged in my own past and my own madness."

– Anne Sexton, from For The Year Of The Insane in "The Complete Poems Of Anne Sexton"

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"Please come to me, I am too hurt, to have hurt you. We can better bear it together."

—Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Lou Salomé

–Credits to the owner.

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TAKE NOTE! ☝️

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That's right! ✅️

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Another thing is: no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

–Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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It was the sensation of need that frightened me the most, as if I'd lifted the lid on an unappeasable abyss.

–Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone.

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"i am

afraid

that if i

open

myself i will not stop pouring. (why do i fear becoming a river. what mountain gave me such shame.)"

—Jamie Oliveira, "Erosion"

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“I was too real for people who were only pretending.”

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...TOO REAL...