self-perception

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. -Soren Kierkegaard

[freshpickle]

please be nice to me, i'm in my twenties. do you know what that does to a person

[derangedrhythms]

Carol Ann Duffy, New Selected Poems: 1984-2004; from ‘To the Unknown Lover’

[luvyourzzz]

[rjmxrell]

“I overthink. I overlove. I overfeel.”

—

[missinyouiskillingme]

I used to build dreams about you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[what-iz-life]

Be so fucking proud of yourself for passing the hardest moments alone while everyone believed you were fine.

[luthienne]

extremely fucked up that the only way out is through

[metamorphesque]

― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

[text ID: I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. I unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive.]

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Malia Makana, from “Like Differently Love.”

[quotemadness]

“Get up and fight. Simply screaming won’t get you anywhere.”

— Unknown

[aidashakur]

[thoughtkick]

“Distance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.”

— Jeff Hood

[ispyspookymansion]

they should invent a future that is livable and comforting instead of so so scary all the time forever

[shounendyke]

they should invent a life that is simple and easy to live and full of joy

[flowerytale]

Louisa May Alcott, from Little Women

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”

[folkloregirlfriend]