la nature humain

Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

[beatricecenci]

Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828)

El Sueño

[seabois]

[simena]

Emanuel Oberhauser (detail)

[spiced-wine-fic]

The willow woman.

Photo taken by The Henge Shop, Avebury.

[psychastria]

Pablo Neruda, tonight I can write the saddest lines

[heavensickness]

Louise Glück, Averno

[himneska]

Yoon Young and Yoon Ji Bae photographed by Songyi Yoon for Marie Claire Korea, December 2020.

[89words]

“You look at trees and called them ‘trees,’ and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a ‘star,’ and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, ‘tree,’ ‘star,’ were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views from yours. To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism, and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of ‘trees’ and ‘stars’ saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was ‘myth-woven and elf patterned’.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, from ‘Mythopoeia’ 

[genterie]

Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in Romeo + Juliet (1996)

[shisasan]

[luthienne]

Mary Ruefle, from Trances of the Blast; “Abdication”

[liberatingreality]

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

- Edvard Munch

[abernathyvalois]

i love reading very very late at night because that’s when the lines between reality and fiction blur and everything becomes a fever dream and you can properly disappear into the pages

[olivethomas]

Linda Darnell in It Happened Tomorrow, 1944

[woolfdaily]

Virginia Woolf // Selected Essays of Virginia Woolf; Dafoe

[aniime-mangacaps]

[sophiacarey00]

“It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back, so shake him off.”

— Florence and the Machine (via quotemadness)