[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.”

– Simone de Beauvoir

Better a non-existent god than an incompetent one.

[meanwhilepoetry]

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.” - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[olearypoetry]

[langleavpoetry]

[quotemadness]

I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm.

Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)

[dailyghibligifs]

[megan-alms-poetry]

| The Things You Did To Me | by Megan Alms

[quotemadness]

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Elizabeth Gilbert (via quotemadness)

[tylerknott]

“Come closer my love, press yourself up against me, and stay forever.”

—

Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

*Please pre-order my upcoming book, Miracle in the Mundane, link in bio!!*

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you’re past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.” - Douglas Coupland, Eleanor Rigby

via @quotespile

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

via @the-book-diaries

[new-poets-society]

Fall 4 me

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“…do you sometimes long to escape?” - Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

via @the-book-diaries

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Silence is so freaking loud.” - Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

via @the-book-diaries

[seatrench]

Curious Blue Shark

(source)

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

via @philosophybits