The world has turned and left me here

Lilly || Germany || Walking Tragedy

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Works and Loves," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[inkpressedpetals]

this is what best friends are for.

[nixscriptum]

[soracities]

“It’s summer now, and you’re craving a simpler existence. You want to read. You want to write. You want to meet strangers for dinner, and not refuse another drink at another bar. You want to dance. You want to find yourself in a basement, neck loose, bobbing your head as a group of musicians play, not because they should, but because they must. It’s summer now, and you’re looking forward to worrying less. You’re looking forward to longer nights and shorter days. You’re looking forward to gathering in back gardens and watching meat sputter on an open barbecue. You’re looking forward to laughing so hard your chest hurts and you feel light-headed. You’re looking forward to the safety in pleasure. You’re looking forward to forgetting, albeit briefly, the existential dread which plagues you, which tightens your chest, which pains your left side. You’re looking forward to forgetting that, leaving the house, you might not return intact. You’re looking forward to freedom, even if it is short, even if it might not last. You’re looking forward.”

— Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

[metamorphesque]

tanka #6, Tathev Simonyan

[vexheart]

[thehopefulquotes]

“You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don’t fight battles that don’t matter.”

— Unknown

[remanence-of-love]

[thoughtcascades]

i am tired of almost. almost happy. almost loved. almost understood. almost safe. almost myself

[quotespile]

“War transforms its participants. What was once necessary appears inessential; what was taken for granted, unappreciated and abused now reveals itself to be central to our existence. Strange inversions proliferate.”

— Zadie Smith, Intimations

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[d-i-d]

[thehopefulquotes]

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”

— Plato

[slaughtered-angel]

[thehopefulquotes]

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

[missinyouiskillingme]

I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again.

— Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

[thoughtkick]

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”

— Toni Morrison, Beloved