Words

[flowerytale]

Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno

[flowerytale]

Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter to his wife Véra (Berlin, 8 November 1923)

[quotefeeling]

“Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.”

— Jim Carrey

[distantvoices]

KIMHĒKIM SS24

[tulipsofthemorning]

[primulaceas]

Sylvia Plath, "Tulips." Ariel

[nascentroseate]

“The things happening on screen were wild and savage, while the atmosphere in the room was oddly sweet, like an unfamiliar wine.” Margarita Karapanou, Rien Ne Va Plus

[starlightacademia]

one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.

- via duckbunny

[philosophybits]

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

[moon1ike]

sometimes you just want to lie down and read a book

david hettinger, jacques chapiro, cecil higgs, isaac israels, xue jiye, willard leroy metcalf, joseph lorusso, alejandra caballero, belinda del pesco

[weltenwellen]

Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against Literature)"

[weltenwellen]

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

[tamsoj]

I have time to think. That is the great, the greatest luxury. I have time to be.

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude

[philosophybits]

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

— Albert Camus, “The Minotaur”, Lyrical and Critical Essays

[philosophybits]

“He who has a why in life can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

[thehopefulquotes]

“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”

— Deepak Chopra

[tamsoj]

There are times when your whole body stumbles and falls into gloom. Into loneliness. Everyone recedes, friends shrink from you, lose their shape, regroup in swarms of animosity. Love reveals itself as fraud.

Lesley Stern, The Smoking Book