Dark Academia @classicsofmine - Tumblr Blog

every day i wonder why i'm not living in a dark castle with secret passageways and rooms filled with books

oh to be a statue of a goddess covered in moss, somewhere in the garden of the enchanted ruins the castle left behind, for birds to take rest on my shoulders and for animals to sleep in front of my feet, for no ordinary humans to be reached

thestrawberrynight

today's mood: big old house on the outskirts of old town, having your own art gallery at home and enjoying beautiful pictures, spending time by candlelight, listening to the harp and reading classical novels

cathrdrals

you don’t need to go to a prestigious university or an exclusive boarding school to get dark academia vibes. you can be a pretentious brooding scholar at your local public high school as well. leave books on renaissance paintings and ancient rituals open on library desks. write ominous notes in the margins of textbooks. quote byron on the bathroom stall door. wear an unmistakable scent of perfume, so when you enter a classroom, everyone knows that you’ve arrived. cut your hair in the sink of the science lab. slip roses into random lockers. surround yourself with a few number of close friends and form your own secret circle. gain a reputation. have whispers follow you down the hallways. I would, however, advise against murder.

thoodleoo

if ur gay and you haven’t fantasized about living in an idyllic ancient greek or italian countryside with your lover where you press fresh goat cheese mixed with herbs and recite homer and sappho to each other then i really don’t know what to say to you

isenheim

i want to live in rome and wear billowing white blouses everyday and eat pomegranates and risotto and wine and go to cathedrals to see the art and explore the catacombs by candlelight

victorian-twink

“Because I say so little you think I don’t feel. I care a lot.” ― E.M. Forster, Maurice

ghostresidues

richard siken quotes that make me cry

•if you don’t believe in god, then who are you talking to?

•i hope it’s love. i’m trying really hard to make it love.

•we left footprints in the slush of ourselves, getting out of there.

•your body told me in a dream it’s never been afraid of anything.

•he’s easy to desire since there’s not much to him.

•why live a life? well, why are you asking?

•people like to think war means something.

•even when i look away i am still looking.

•he didn’t know how to say it. years later he still didn’t know how to say it, and she was gone.

•i clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. i’d rather quit. i’d rather be sad.

•someone has to leave first. this is a very old story. there is no other version of this story.

•tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.

•i swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth.

•i couldn’t get the boy to kill me, but i wore his jacket for the longest time.

•tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

•i want to tell you this story without having to be in it.

•he takes you in his arms and pushes your flesh around to see if you could ever be ugly to him.

•you wanted to be in love and he happened to get in the way.

•i don’t really blame you for being dead but you can’t have your sweater back.

•people get hurt here. people fall down and stay down and i don’t like the way the song goes.

•someone is digging your grave right now.

motionpicturesource

Thank you, Mr. Dalton, you just illustrated the point.

lsbelleswriting

“Don’t we just fall in love with the second and the third, simply because they bare some resemblance or have features of the first?”

—

eclettismo

🥨 source: pinterest

americanbeasts-moved

“The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.”

— Camille Paglia (via elirya)

lettersfromadreamgirl

okay but waking up in the middle of the night to soft rain and knowing you’ve still got hours to sleep, when you’re toasty warm and comfortable & sleep has made you forget all your worries and responsibilities and u go back to sleep feeling as content as ever