a sense of wasted tenderness

if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it, I am around to hear it

[chevaliermesfait]

[hildeeveraert]

Vivian Maier - Man on Stone Rail, Chicago, 1956

[scenerybook]

[tattoovonbeardy]

I know exactly how this bear feels

[geryone]

Sanctuary, Patricia Monaghan

[aschenblumen]

Egon Schiele, House with bell tower (1912).

[letterful]

— SHARON OLDS

[grimumor]

[philosophybits]

“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.”

— Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young”

[grimumor]

[metamorphesque]

'You took away all the oceans and all the room', Osip Mandelstam (translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin)

[grimumor]

Pelham Davey

[grimumor]

[litandlifequotes]

We have big plans. Oh yes. We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

[gravellyrun]

[doublebluff]

invisiblestories:

Albert Pinkham Ryder Toilers of the Sea (via gravellyrun)

[malebeautyinart]

[idlf]

Gottfrid Kallstenius

[breakmybody]

[doublebluff]

crocket:

you are so complex that you don’t always respond to danger. 

[quotespile]

“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo’s tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they’re you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn’t know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.”

— Elif Batuman, The Idiot