per aspera

i can't sleep

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I will dream today, because I must unscrew my head and somehow freshen up,”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. October 1937 featured in “The Diary of Virginia Woolf,”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“People like me love only ghosts.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Franz Overbeck wr. c. October 1883

[florallpeach]

“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.”

— Arthur Miller, The Crucible (via wordsnquotes)

[quotemadness]

“I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be at peace with their bodies, their minds, their weaknesses. I try to build them, to find the parts of them that are missing in me. I end up with holes in my chest.”

— Farah Gabdon (via quotemadness)

[2shimmer]

“I am tired. These people make me feel I have a hole in the middle of me.”

— D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; “The Plumbed Serpent,” (via atreides)

[quotemadness]

“I’ve always liked moonless nights best. It’s easier to say things in the dark. It’s easier to be yourself.”

— Patrick Rothfuss (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.”

— Cecelia Ahern (via quotemadness)

[sociallydeconstructed]

“I could fuck you all night, from a memory alone”

— Memrise by Frank Ocean

[quotemadness]

“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”

— Colleen Hoover (via quotemadness)

[thingsmyxxxsaid]

[quotemadness]

“Is it really that bad if someone sees who you are? Why is it humans have a problem with letting someone else see that they are human?”

— Joseph Gogler (via quotemadness)

[weltenwellen]

“Do not let regret weigh you down. Do not slow down so they can say sorry. Do not look back unless you’re looking at the sunrise. There will always be a new day, and endings birth beginnings.”

— Cody Vesley, “Lessons in Leaving”

[lifeinpoetry]

“You have a mouth men bless. / You look good enough to bury.”

— Morgan Parker, from “Everything Will Be Taken Away,” Magical Negro

[weltenwellen]

“There is no patience in this body. There is only enormous wanting. No one speaks of the stunning weight of it— how desire pulls us through the world as though our limbs are attached to the strings of a clumsy marionette.”

— Fortesa Latifi, from “From Henry Miller To Anais Nin”

[quotemadness]

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

— Khalil Gibran (via quotemadness)

[weltenwellen]

“I want to love something. / I want to love something without having to apologize for it. Please don’t tell.”

— Hala Alyan, from “I’m Not Speaking First,” The Twenty-Ninth Year

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“You and I know each other in our bones,”

— Kurt Vonnegut, from a letter to Nanny Vonnegut wr. c. January 1973