Latibule

(n.) a hiding place; a place of safety and comfort

[bbabyllove]

I don’t want to do this anymore

[bbabyllove]

My strength is not something to be admired.

It is something to be pitied.

I should be allowed to collapse, I just don’t have the luxury.

I’m forced to push past my breaking points over and over again.

My strength is a prison.

[bbabyllove]

just count me out brother

count. me. out!

[bbabyllove]

[mournfulroses]

Katherine May, from Wintering: How I learned to Flourish when Life became Frozen 

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

[nostalgia-curator]

Need to find a balance

[geryone]

anyone else 1 situation away from losing their mind

[cemeteryxghoul]

whatever (it's eating away at my soul)

[deviika]

Virginia Woolf // Clarice Lispector

[greelin]

crazy how you can be hanging on by a thread for like four months. Or your entire life

[deviika]

Nikos Kazantzakis // Fyodor Dostoevsky

[mournfulroses]

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2019

[deviika]

Sylvia Plath // Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[suicideenthusiast-backup]

oh boy i wish someone would notice my cries for help! [someone actually notices] noooo i'm fine don't worry about me

[sggk]

U may be fooled by my constant melancholia and generally pathetic state of being but take heart in knowing that i am trying unfathomably hard to live

[weltenwellen]

the overwhelming feeling of sadness sometimes when someone treats me with kindness

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous