Twist the knife

[metamorphesque]

The Monopoly of Suffering, E. M. Cioran (translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)

[petaltexturedskies]

Fernando Pessoa, from "English Song" in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

[roses--and--rue]

Victorian hair wreath in an unusual, octagonal shaped shadow box.

Though it’s presumed that all Victorian hair work is mourning or memorial related, most hair wreaths and small arrangements like this are simply family keepsakes. The technique used was gimp work, simply weaving the hair from family members with wire and looping the strands into flowers. 

via Roses & Rue Antiques

[matyleen]

[intihardenemeleri]

[rearte2]

by Roy Lichtenstein, 1964

[nixscriptum]

[hirxeth]

First Reformed (2018) dir. Paul Schrader

[charnel-grounds]

La photographie transcendentale: les esprits graves et les esprits trompeurs — Jean Finot, 1890

source

[mischon]

Eileen Senner -  Artgráfico (2015)

[perfectfeelings]

“The deeper the wound, the more private the pain.”

— Isabel Allende, Paula

[megairea]

“Aren’t you my silence, […]? Aren’t you my solitude? You see my thoughts more clearly than I can myself.”

— Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me (tr. by Jeannette Howard Foster), 1904

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,”

[holykrampus]

A Russian believer plunges himself into the freezing waters of an ice hole in the shape of a crucifix

[vintagewildlife]

Barn owl with prey By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

[derangedrhythms]

Why are the woods so alluring?

Amy Gerstler, from ‘Bon Courage’

[sentrysvoid]

V for Vendetta dir. James McTeigue | 2005