[heavensghost]

‘Love is an organic thing. It rots and softens.’

Words by Clementine Von Radics

[wildflower-livsnjutare]

They expect me to want her like I am a stable man; I am a starving one

[brutalgrace333]

“Wild Geese”, by Mary Oliver

[the-soulwhispers]

C.S. Lewis once wrote,

"I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief"

And I think we all needed to hear that.

[wovi]

*

melissa broder, milk fed

[carloskaplan]

Roberto Ferri: Soffio impuro

[lipikkawrites]

If life can remove people you never dreamt of losing, it can replace them with someone you never dreamt of having.

-@lipikkawrites

[tendermimi]

Søren Kierkegaard, Diaries 1813-1855

[metamorphesque]

fyodor dostoevsky (the brothers karamazov), charles bukowski (a vote for the gentle light)

[metamorphesque]

czesław miłosz, from the poem "hope"

[supreme-leader-stoat]

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

vs

"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

[schizoprophet]

#a REALLY good tragedy is locked in quantum uncertainty between these two states

[o66e]

[heavensghost]

Louise Glück

[holykrampus]

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

[timbllr]

[starlightacademia]

Hiraeth (n.)

a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.

[siir-poesia]

"And in the end, we were all just humans… drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Alanis Morissette, Sorry to Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084