A Collection Of Quotes

[quotesforoursouls]

excerpts from Vows (from a gay wedding) by Joseph O. Legaspi

[quotesforoursouls]

Many people are good to me. Many hate me. But there are some out there who know that I'm truly some kind of simple soul caught in a wild gamble. They know me. They know that I sit between these walls. They know I've been burned. And that I still laugh.

Charles Bukowski

[quotesforoursouls]

how dare you be the kind of person I would immediately fall completely in love with and be devastated if you left

how dare you come and do that

- Hera Lindsay Bird, I want to get high my whole life with you

[weusedtobegiants]

People like to think war means something.

Richard Siken, from War Of The Foxes

[quotesforoursouls]

I like sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

- Ernest Hemingway

[quotesforoursouls]

Pillow Thoughts, Courtney Peppernell

[quotesforoursouls]

“Nothing like love to put blood back in the language,”

— Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986, ‘Nothing’ by Margaret Atwood

[quotesforoursouls]

"What I hadn't realised until as of late is that I was not going to have to be brave just once but that I was indeed going to have to keep being brave over and over again."

Cynthia Chapman

[quotesforoursouls]

You are never going to run out of books to read because there are always stories waiting to be told, and there are always going to be books you haven’t read yet that will change your life as they unfold.

Ekta Somera

[quotesforoursouls]

“I’ll tell you about it if I ever get it straight in my head.”

-Ernest Hemingway

[itallstartedwithakiss]

You deserve someone who texts 'I miss you' at 12:30 pm in the middle of the day when they're surrounded by people. Not at 2:30am when they're alone.

[quotesforoursouls]

"The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing."

- Charles Bukowski

[quotesforoursouls]

I do not want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.

- Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions by Anne Carson

[quotesforoursouls]

"Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well."

- Richard Siken

[quotesforoursouls]

"How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter."

- Charles Bukowski

[quotesforoursouls]

“I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch everything go wrong."

- Lemony Snicket; A Series of Unfortunate Events

[quotesforoursouls]

Sensitive souls don't have it easy in this cruel world. They feel like their souls are getting trampled on in so many ways. That's why you see their eyes light up when they can caress a face or an animal, or breathe in the scent of a flower.

- Sereno Sky