VANITAS

Without you in my world the sun has set

[dailyclassicart]

Lionello Balestrieri - "The Kiss"

[oldpaintings]

Albert Ritzberger (Austrian, 1853-1915)

[pmamtraveller]

Leopold Schmutzler - Frog King

[vorpalteeth]

the vorpal blade

[wander-ess]

Will o the Wisp, 1888 by Lev Lerch

[aqua-regia009]

L'Apparition / The Apparition (Detail), c.1876 - Gustave Moreau

[li4r]

[schattenkindd]

[veylkei]

“Beneath this mask of flesh, a cathedral of despair waits.”

[rienafoutre]

[before-life]

by jacopo

[horrorlesbians]

Flower petals cause blood-like stains on the grave of opera singer Jane Margyl in Batignolles cemetery in Paris.

[erinnyens]

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra   (via what-strange-lives-we-live)

[bienenkiste]

Cimitero di Staglieno photographed by Sølve Sundsbø for Sixteen Journal Volume 2

[cruellheaven]

“…the sharp discomfort of loving you,”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Buck in the Snow; from ‘To A Musician’ (via derangedrhythms)

[redlipstickresurrected]

[jxckiekills]