[philosophybits]

“Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.”

— Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

[quietlotus]

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

[lunamonchtuna]

remember when Richard Siken said, "..how i ruined everything by saying it out loud." be right back i have to burn my house down

[kenei-loves-youuu]

for someone who literally has the ugliest crying face, I sure do have some nerve to be screaming along to "pretty when you cry" by queen mother lana.

[prancingwillow]

I swearrrr

[typhlonectes]

[prancingwillow]

[aar-ish]

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is, "I know this feeling. I was here before"

— Don DeLillo, White Noise

[philosophybits]

“For me, it is indifferent from where I am to begin: for that is where I will arrive back again.”

— Parmenides, Fragments, B5

[philosophybits]

“I am my world. (The microcosm.) There is no such thing as the subject that thinks or entertains ideas. … The subject does not belong to the world: rather, it is a limit of the world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

[enigmasandepiphanies]

I am, as the novelists say, in need of seaside air

[jadeitexmoon]

bitches be saying they long for a mr. darcy and then go chase after every mr. wickham in their lives

[quotemadness]

“Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[blackswaneuroparedux]

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

La danse donne une âme à nos coeurs et des ailes à la pensée.

[freelance-philosopher]

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[prancingwillow]

Tumblr is Twitter for the introverted.

[prancingwillow]

I am a shapeless uncoordinated mass, nothing but a weight of lifeless matter, whose ill-assorted elements are indiscriminately heaped together in one place, or, as Ovid would call it- Chaos.

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I am sad, not because you are leaving, but because I am going to forget you.”

— Marcel Proust, from his correspondence (1917), quoted in Proust in Love by William C. Carter (Yale University Press, 2006)