banality

“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” — Guillermo Maldonado "I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone." — Charles Bukowsk "I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing." — Søren Kierkegaard

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God

[weltenwellen]

The Anxiety of Isolation by Daehyun Kim

[pedromgabriel]

- I just can’t live without it -

by Pedro Gabriel

Instagram

EyeEm

[utwo]

Spain / Europe by :

© Diego Santos

[pedromgabriel]

- You know that you’re mine! -

by Pedro Gabriel

Instagram

EyeEm

[khayriya-deactivated20250830]

crying

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God

[sosuperawesome]

Mmumechii on Instagram

[filmaticbby]

River of Grass (1994) dir. Kelly Reichardt

[inkskinned]

oh, i love that we decorate things! i love when we make our homes a little picture of ourselves! i love how you can step into a house and sometimes know - oh, you made this yours! i love looking up to a window and seeing the hopeful little green heads of potted plants! i love the cheery bright fairy lights in your childhood bedroom! i love that we paint our nails, i love that we dye our hair, i love that my house's front door changes color every year! i love finding little chalk pictures and little hearts in the pen aisle of art stores and little stickers on the outside of waterbottles! i love the clip-on earrings and the little tassels on the end of new bike handles and the bird on my favorite plate! i love that in the darkest part of the year, when things are scary and sparse, we put up cheesy snowmen and flamingos in scarves and big, tinseled hope - hi, there! we say, i'm in here! this is what my light wants to look like! come see! come see me!

[weltenwellen]

Sarah Kay, from “The Paradox”, No Matter the Wreckage

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

There are things we don’t want to happen but have to accept; things we don’t want to know but have to learn; and people we can’t live without but have to let go.

Jennifer Jareau (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[antigonick]

“Is it too much love or too little that I have translated into being?”

— Rebecca Seiferle, excerpt of “Muse of Translation”, in Wild Tongue

[septemberkisses]

— José Olivarez, from "Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains," Citizen Illegal

[sweetlikeacherry]

“The most dangerous thing a woman can possess is self-worth. Liking her own body, trusting her own instincts, valuing her own time and company, thinking she’s interesting and special, entering business and personal relationships based only on mutual benefit and respect. Sometimes this leads to advertisers having no idea how to corner us. If we don’t hate ourselves, how will we know what to buy? Sometimes self-worth leads to violence against us. Sometimes, though, self-worth sets us free.”

— Margaret Lyons, The Find Yourself Beauty of Shrill (via howtofightloneliness)

[i-wrotethisforme]

My PIN number to this day is my second grade best friends birthday. There are people I don’t talk to anymore whose families are still in my prayers. There are shirts I wear to bed from exes of 8 years ago who are married now with kids. And I haven’t found a macaroni salad recipe better than my college boyfriend’s mom’s. Our lives are made up of so many people and when people become parts of our lives, some parts remain long after they leave. And in the same exact way, it’s comforting to know there are so many lives you’re still a part of that you have no idea about.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)