how much sorrow can i take

quote dump

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“I fall asleep whispering "I am safer alone I am safer alone l am safer alone l am safer alone" [...] Forgive me, memory is a rope around the neck.”

— Clementine von Radics, from James

[justpaperweights]

I wondered what it could be, what my true happiness could even look like — I never found an answer.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Michael Cunningham, The Hours

[flowrbreaths-moved]

how very special are we for just a moment to be part of life’s eternal rhyme

[justpaperweights]

"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them."

[justpaperweights]

Everything in life is just for a while.

[justpaperweights]

Absolutely. Definitely. Unquestionably.

[sunsetquotes]

We ruined ourselves- I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other.

F. Scott Fitzgerald; A Life in Letters

[dk-thrive]

“Of course, there were days when I wanted to cut and run. Sometimes it was my conscience, sometimes it was love, but whatever it was, something always tugged at the leash, always brought me back. A twitch upon the thread.”

— Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir (Penguin Publishing, July 12, 2022) 

[dk-thrive]

“Even in these quiet moments I was afraid of purposelessness.”

— Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir (Penguin Publishing, July 12, 2022)

[365-songs-a-year]

[justpaperweights]

oh the terrifying longing

[bnmxfld]

I wanted it so much. I don't know why I wanted it so much.

Ernest Hemingway / Cat in the Rain

[solivagants]

be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high.

then life seems almost enchanted after all.

—vincent van gogh

[inkskinned]

there's an end to the loneliness, right? it ends, eventually? and i'll be finally whole inside?

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[justpaperweights]