Born To Lose Dying To Win

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[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

The 10th Victim (1965)

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Betty Blue (1986

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Pauline at the Beach (1983)

[mournfulroses]

Υu Chi, from a poem titled "Following the Rhymes of Bamboo Branch Songs," featured in The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry

[dopequeen1738]

adriana lima for luca luca ss 2005

[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, from "Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry," originally published in April 2026

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Betty Blue (1986)

[mournfulroses]

Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to John Murry featured in The Letters & Journals of Katherine Mansfield

[petaltexturedskies]

But I do feel strange—almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

La Dolce Vita (1960)

[filmnoirsbian]

I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own loneliness but also find the good in it like when audrey hepburn said “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel” and when charlotte bronte said “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” and when jenny slate said “I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am. But that’s why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be a part of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself out with it! Your choice!” and when mary oliver said “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things”

[mournfulroses]

Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in The Letters & Journals of Katherine Mansfield

[thoughtkick]

“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.”

— Ferdinand de Saussure

[kuchipachi]

white flag by lucia gallipoli

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[metamorphesque]

The Passion for the Absurd, E. M. Cioran (translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)