If this is reality I guess I'm not alive

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[quotemadness]

“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

— Margaret Atwood

[talestalesof]

“When we’re most intense—who’ll flinch?”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “Phrases,” (via agooduniverse)

[skullofbeauty-deactivated202601]

“I complicate you; I surround you with intricate ropes. What web shall I wrap you in?”

— Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems I: “Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein” (via intopermanence)

[nssrnv-deactivated20230626]

“I must run away, I must escape this very day or I shall go out of my mind.”

— Anton Chekhov, from “The Russian Master” in The Russian Master & Other Stories

[weltenwellen]

I am tired of being a ghost, (...). I am tired of being a mystery. I want to take form, to appear, and one only gains visibility by action.

Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947

[000l]

a conversation about how you feel is not supposed to end in an argument

[weltenwellen]

I feared my grief would turn to despair, that it would become a skin I couldn't shed.

Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

[lifeinpoetry]

I am hungry for touch & ashamed to be looked at

— Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die

[kinqofsh0ts]

I hope you win the war, you tell no one about.

[weltenwellen]

Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937

[lovefulls]

[honigimohr]

“you should never have to apologize for the way you need to be loved.”

— spinningsharks (via wnq-writers)

[lifeinpoetry]

“i wish i wasn’t / such a raw thing.”

— helga floros, from “Insomnia,” published in Occulum

[labeatz]

having someone who is very patient and understanding with you, even on your hard days, is my form of a pure love language.

[lifeinpoetry]

“How to dance in blood and remain sane?”

— Sonia Sanchez, from “6 Haiku,” Morning Haiku

[malojasnake]

— October, by Mary Oliver

[honigimohr]

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”

— Yehuda Berg (via unconditionedconsciousness)