#on understanding

[odraziduse]

Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.

Albert Camus

[duncanssixthchild]

[romanticmonster]

[rosyjuly]

I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something’s not right about what I’m doing but I’m still doing it— living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.

― Richard Siken, 'Birds Hover The Tramled Field', from War of the Foxes

[chokethefire]

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

Atonement, Ian McEwan

[tamsoj]

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them … they could perceive what they have made of us.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951–1959

[duncanssixthchild]