modernity has failed us

|-/

[catchymemes]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[ohmovie]

Come back. Come back. Come back to me.

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

[naomi-watts]

 I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

[quotespile]

“There was a great difference between the things I wanted and the things I could apparently have, and until I had finally and forever made my peace with that fact, I had decided to want nothing at all.”

— Rachel Cusk, Outline

[highonoverthinking]

[acoloredgirlssuicide]

Started reading ‘the passion according to GH’ by Clarice Lispector and although my soul has not yet been completely formed I have found myself hanging onto her every word because she has managed to articulate overthinking and racing thoughts into a singular, coherent story tied together by other thoughts but they all manage to fit together and embody uncertainty and restlessness

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a journal entry featured in The Early Diaries of Virginia Woolf

[kansassire]

Hamnet, 2025, Chloe Zhao

[peigslayers]

watching hamnet like. wow. did you know that your art can express emotions unnameable to your audience? did you know that your audience's reaction to that same art can transform transmute elevate those emotions into something beyond your imagination?

[anvael]

[shisasan]

March 28, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a journal entry featured in The Early Journals of Rainer Maria Rilke

[miguelmarquezoutside]

[nevver]

2016 - No Parking, Michael Pederson

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[wretchfulreading]

So this is how a person can come to despise himself - knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

[highlandsorrows]

-Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon