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[poeticaura]

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

—William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, scene 6)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Langston Hughes, from Selected Poems; “Quietness,”

[poeticaura]

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.”

—William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act 5, scene 5)

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

[quotemadness]

Sometimes it’s better not to look back.

Ransom Riggs (via quotemadness)

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” - Maya Angelou (via quotemadness)

[scorpiofromjupiter]

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks, not in what they say, just in what they are.”

-The Book Theif

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.” - Dalai Lama (via quotemadness)

[books-n-quotes]

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day…”

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via books-n-quotes)

[books-n-quotes]

“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”

— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (via books-n-quotes)

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” - Rick Riordan

via @quotemadness

[metaphorformetaphor]

“When did I become a stranger again? Was I one all along?”

— Jens Christian Grøndahl, from Often I Am Happy (Twelve,2017)

[books-n-quotes]

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via books-n-quotes)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Be a poem without words, which can neither be read, nor seen, nor heard.”

— Mona Sa’udi, tr. by Kamal Boullata, from “I Grew Harder Than Tears,”

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.” - Paulo Coelho (via quotemadness)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“You must learn to bear the entire universe and all its moving heaviness;”

— Jules Supervielle, tr. James Kirkup, from Selected Wirings; “To A Little Gir,”

[poeticaura]

“The night is dark and full of terrors.”

—George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire