[mournfulroses]

Edgar Allan Poe, from Tamerlane & Other Poems of E. A. P.; “The Sleeper,”

[petaltexturedskies]

Alfred Tennyson, from "Mechanophilus"

[kisxmesoft]

[exhaled-spirals]

— Will Rees, “Kafka the hypochondriac”

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”

— Khalil Gibran; Sand and Foam (1926)

[laachi]

not to be that person but I’m back on tumblr after 10 years it truly is 2016

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A man offers prayer on a stone in the fast flowing river Swat.

[blondebrainpowered]

Two children ignoring the artwork at the San Francisco Museum of Art. ca. 1960s

Photographer: Herb Slodounik

[quotespile]

“It’s hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines. They’re as difficult to disentangle as love and sorrow.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

[soracities]

“After all, [the world] is on my side. That is, I’m a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground’s walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

[godkissedme]

karl lagerfeld ss 09

[shisasan]

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra“, originally published 1873

[calegria]

Gif Illustration: Passenger side

[beljar]

The dead hours, empty passages, the fleeting and poignant desire to hear no more, to see no more, to remain silent.

Georges Perec, A Man Asleep, 1967 (translated from the French by Andrew Leak)

[weltenwellen]

Jonice Webb, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

[imjacksbrokenheart]

Andrew Garfield on losing his mother, The Believer

[twinkle-mars]