gloom & romance

remembering the pleasures of love to feel more strongly the regret of being deprived of them

[darkacademiaquotes]

"April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never."

-Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

[lafiguraentutapiz]

Vampyr. Carl Theodor Dreyer. 1932

[enchantedbook]

'And the butterflies began to sing ' by Max Ernst, 1929.

[lettersbynoel-deactivated202605]

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me.’”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

This isn’t a wish for destruction, but for transcendence. A longing to be absorbed by something vast enough to erase the smallness of the self. To be consumed not by fire, but by meaning. Perhaps this is the quiet ache of all thinkers — to disappear into brilliance and finally become infinite.

[requiem-on-water]

“Tudor Woman at the Window Holding a Dagger” by Lee Avison

[unusual-suspects]

Die Heldenreise" (The Hero's Journey), created by artist Franco Luccarda

[rosieandthemoon]

[zegalba]

Maison Margiela couture spring/summer 2024 Design: John Galliano

[oldwinesoul]

[songesoleil]

Faun und Nymphe, “Frühling”.1897. Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Oktober 1897- März 1898.

[gothredy]

[unusual-suspects]

theater of the mind

[amicus-noctis]

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.” ― Desiderius Erasmus

Painting: Unknown

[nixscriptum]

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ఌ )

[vitaminguo]

La joie de vivre（2011）

[ladyalatariel]

MADS MIKKELSEN as Michael Kohlhaas in Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013) | dir. Arnaud des Pallières

[lexys]

MADS MIKKELSEN as MICHAEL KOHLHAAS

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013).