.Memento vivere.

[books-n-quotes]

“Light from even a nearby star was four years old by the time it reached your eyes. Where would I be in four years? Simple: where you are. In four years I’ll have reached you.” - Elif Batuman, The Idiot

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Boiled down, isn’t love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.” - Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

[thezeroquotes]

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

— Haruki Murakami

[causeries-litteraires]

“Il existe des âmes écrevisses reculant continuellement vers les ténèbres, rétrogradant dans la vie plutôt qu'elles n'y avancent, employant l'expérience à augmenter leur difformité, empirant sans cesse, et s'empreignant de plus en plus d'une noirceur croissante.”

—

Victor Hugo -  Les Misérables, Fantine , I,1862

English:” There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.”Victor Hugo,tr. by  Isabel F. Hapgood

[naturaekos]

““To define is to limit.””

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via goodreadss)

[imaushisano]

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

— Fyodor Dosteovsky, Crime and Punishment (source)

[un-air-d-autrefois]

“Dans le noir, je chercherai la couleur de la vérité…" 

 Pierre Soulages

 Photo | Pierre Soulages: Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1966

[causeries-litteraires]

“I have enough love to fill your silence .”

— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès ,February 27, 1950

[frankocean]

Michael Mayren took this picture

[thebookquotes]

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[thehopefulquotes]

Nothing is everything. In order to grow strong, you must first sink your roots deep into nothingness. Learn to face your loneliest loneliness.

— When Nietzsche Wept (2007)

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“What a terrible, messy thing to be given a heart.”

All the Muses I’ve Been, Alison Kronstadt

[thezeroquotes]

I want to sleep, I want dreams to pull me from this world and make me forget. To stop the memories from swirling around me. To put an end to this ache that consumes me.

— Carrie Ryan

[quotemadness]

“There are some feelings you will never find words for; you will learn to name them after the ones who gave them to you.”

— Maza Dohta

[philosophyquotes]

“There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

[therepublicofletters]

“… this land seems born to raise up dead things…”

— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Art of War

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“When I gave up hope of being complete, the sorrow deepened, As that went too, a mystery replaced it. Now it’s a faint blue square against which being and nonbeing will always wrestle,”

— Brenda Hillman, from “Blue Square,” Loose Sugar (Wesleyan, 1997)