galaxies &dust

laura, 27, germany. I'm a passionate reader, ethical vegan and aspiring minimalist.

[wordsnquotes]

“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone.”

— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

“The more one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.”

— Franz Kafka, Homecoming

[lifeinpoetry]

“We are all celebrating the same / sort of misery. We sleep to get through life. I want to crawl / into a teacup & sleep forever.”

— Talin Tahajian, from “I dream in so many neon colors,” published in Poor Claudia

[wordsnquotes]

“Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep Inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

[wordsnquotes]

“Life doesn’t always introduce you to the people you want to meet. Sometimes life puts you in touch with the people you need to meet – to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you, and to gradually strengthen you into the person you were meant to become.”

— Anonymous Wisdom | @wordsnquotes

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I always feel abandoned by those who are laughing and talking as if they had left me out, whereas it is I who get cut off by my own nature and separateness.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947

[mona-lisas-and-mad--hatters-blog]

the smiths- rubber ring

[venuskind]

☆ live with intention ☆

☽☆☾ Venuskind

[days-of-reading]

What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone else around you is readying for a feast. It feels shameful and alarming, and over time these feelings radiate outwards, making the lonely person increasingly isolated, increasingly estranged. It hurts, in the way that feelings do, and it also has physical consequences that take place invisibly, inside the closed compartments of the body. It advances, is what I’m trying to say, cold as ice and clear as glass, enclosing and engulfing.

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (via days-of-reading)

[thequotejournals]

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not.

Frank Pittman (via wordsnquotes)

[sinkingfreely]

It shouldn’t be this hard to keep myself alive at my age

[wnq-writers]

Moving is thinking of tomorrow, and not yesterday. Thinking of a new love, and not the previous one. Forgetting how they made you feel, whether good or bad. Forgetting how much you really cared about them. Forgetting about what they might be doing, and who they might be with. Thinking of yourself. Protecting yourself. Thinking of tomorrow, and not yesterday.

recklesslyxgold,  writing prompt #17: Write about moving on (via wordsnquotes)

[introspectivepoet]

I really just want to make people feel loved, and I want people to know they are loved.

[thelovejournals]

I wish I had a someone who would observe me silently, who would capture all my habits and quirks, and still love me. Someone that would get lost in how my fine features define my face, while smiling or crying, and still love me.

Elay Neal Moses (via wordsnquotes)

[thelovejournals]

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life, and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love you, simply for being you. The once in a lifetime kind of people.

Unknown (via wordsnquotes)

[themotivationjournals]

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via wordsnquotes)