Not all those who wander

Emily | 22 | US | Quotes, Poetry, Song Lyrics etc.

[quotemadness]

“I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.”

— Henry Rollins (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

[quotemadness]

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace

[nehmesis]

Margaret Atwood, published on Eating Fire;

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.” - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.” - Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

[tenderblues]

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert”

[books-n-quotes]

“…Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (via books-n-quotes)

[halflunar]

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder?”

— Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light

[drawlight]

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place because you’ll never be this way ever again.”

— Azar Nafisi; Reading Lolita in Tehran (via sunsetquotes)

[amortizing]

“When the day is over, let it go. Don’t dwell on what you could’ve or should’ve done. Tomorrow is another day and another chance.”

— Mandy Hale (via amargedom)

[quotemadness]

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

[aseaofquotes]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Submitted by notsocommon14.

[quotemadness]

“I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.”

— Henry James (via quotemadness)

[marthajefferson]

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

— Nelson Mandela (via virgoassbitch)

[r-siken-deactivated20210531]

the language of the birds, richard siken

[larmoyante]

“Everything that is tearing us down today will become a memory, and this memory will be shared as an anecdote or a story or a poem or a play or a warning. It will be shared with another human being, who will then understand that he is not alone in his sadness. This is why we show up for others and tell our tales and listen to others. The great congregation meets daily, and you are someone’s angel today.”

— Tennessee Williams, in an interview with James Grissom