[girlinlondon]

“I am dim and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream, surely.”

— Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

[intopermanence]

“I am everything that makes one grind one’s teeth, blink one’s eyes, everything that makes one turn in horror — […] I am…absurd.”

— Laure, trans. by Jeanine Herman, from The Collected Writings: “Correspondence”

[eternal-gardens]

— Collected Poems of Imam al-Shafi’i

[nemfrog]

“Tracing of the respiratory curve during a sad depressing thought.” The physiology of faith and fear. 1912. 

[maison-de-soie]

[milsae]

Self-care

[topcat77]

Marion Livran

[haleyincarnate]

Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

[7vyy]

[incorrectshakespeare]

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

— Ophelia to Hamlet, Act III, Scene II or, Hamlet to Ophelia, Act V, Scene I

[saudisociety]

idk what happened i was thriving in kindergarten I swear

[gacougnol]

Rolf Kunitsch Under the Eiffel Tower Paris 1965

[thoughtkick]

“Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.”

— Andrei Platonov, Happy Moscow.

[infinite-sappy]

[theclassicsreader]

“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you must be able to attain.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[11990904]

[murkycanvas]

words to live by

[quotemadness]

“You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.”

— Ernest Hemingway