words

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I like her. She makes life interesting. She, herself, is interesting, I suppose. She talks right from the heart. I appreciate her frankness and I like the fact that she doesn’t force the natural flow of a conversation. There’s personality in her words. She thus gets to the core of things and that’s important because with her — I can talk knowing that the talk is real! Oh believe me, it’s amazingly real! And she also gives me the opportunity to listen as fully and completely as possible. And I can’t seem to get her out of my head […]

Virginia Woolf, from Selected Letters  (via pre-raphaelites)

[fitzgeraldquotes]

Sometimes I don’t know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1933 (via fitzgeraldquotes)

[neverendingpoetry]

My friend is a kind of drug addiction and when I noticed it I was really sad about it. I've been following you on Instagram for long so I know you are studying philosophy. If possible can you please help me on this regard? I seriously do not know what to do and I want your advise because I think you might have some ideas when a problem occurred as its studies helps in a way. Thanks ,

Hello. This is not an issue for a philosopher, nor for a stranger on the other side of your computer screen. An addiction is a complex social and medical issue that must be addressed by appropriate professionals. Please voice your concerns to your friend, their immediate family and to a reliable professional party who is able to provide help, such as a doctor, a counsellor or possibly a local treatment centre. I advice you to contact a local helpline and discuss the situation with them immediately; they will be able to provide you information on what you can do and who you can contact. I wish you and your friend all the best. 

[neverendingpoetry]

Hello, I see you are studying philosophy and as you may know,we could find a wide variety of philosophies. Do you mind if I ask which subject is especially attract you?

Hello hello, I especially enjoy logic and philosophy of language and political philosophy (and ethics, and epistemology, and, there isn't really anything I don't like). 

[rabbitinthemoon-blog]

You may blame Aphrodite soft as she is she has almost killed me with love for that boy

Sappho, Blame Aphrodite (via thefairygarden)

[blazeofgold-deactivated20190921]

My blood was in a fervent within me, my heart full of longing, sweetly and foolishly; I was all expectancy and wonder; I was tremulous and waiting; my fancy fluttered about the same images like martins round a bell tower at dawn; I dreamed and was sad and sometimes cried. But through the tears and the melancholy, inspired by the beauty of verse or the beauty of the evening, there always rose upwards, like the grasses of early spring, shoots of happy feeling, of young and surging life.

Ivan Turgenev, First Love (via paperswallow)

[lipstickedstains]

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via palaisroyalparis)

[owijaa]

You have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness.

Don Pedro to Benedick, in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing 5.4.41-42  (via yunoki)

[stoicremains-deactivated2017102]

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (via mirroir)

[lolitaenrose]

[provst-deactivated20190401]

Overwhelmed by lack of time, race of time, speed of time, I retreat into non-thought - merely into Epicurean sensual observations and desires - momentary ephemeral flashes of well being and ill-being. Do I think? After a fashion. Do I put myself in other people’s minds and viscera? No. Not half enough. Do I listen? Yes. Do I create? No. I reproduce. I have no imagination. I am submerged in circling ego. I listen, God knows why. I say I am interested in people. Am I rationalizing? Maybe it’s too uncomfortable to know much of anything.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via fleurstains)

[lifeinpoetry]

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

Sylvia Plath, “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”  (via petrichour)

[neverendingpoetry]

Have you gotten your hands on a new computer now, since your answering questions again? :) If so, congratulations on your new investment!

I'm still relying on my phone with the messages, but I should get a new computer this weekend. (Until then I'll be doing less scrolling down a dashboard and more museums, long walks, daytime movies, coffee dates, etc.)

[seabois]

All you need now is to stand at the window and let your rhythmical sense open and shut, open and shut, boldly and freely, until one thing melts in another, until the taxis are dancing with the daffodils, until a whole has been made from all these separate fragments.

Virginia Woolf, A Letter To A Young Poet (via seabois)

[stoicremains-deactivated2017102]

I read the whole novel straight through. And I got up and drank water, man. You should’ve seen me. I couldn’t move. That’s what a good writer will do to you. He’ll damn near kill you…a bad writer will too.

Charles Bukowski (via nofatnowhip)

[neverendingpoetry]

did you learn all the foreign languages you know yourself (like self-study) or did you learn them in school? I want to learn German so..

I was taught most of the languages I know in school, but I do think that the most important thing in learning a foreign language is the work you do outside the classroom. German is wonderful but I neglected precisely this part of the learning process; therefore I can hardly speak a single grammatically correct sentence of it.

[aseaofquotes]

[aseaofquotes]

— Joyce Carol Oates