#quotestosee

[wedarkacademia]

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” ― Mary Oliver

[ignite-mind]

[wedarkacademia]

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” ― Mary Oliver

[wedarkacademia]

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

 - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

[wedarkacademia]

“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” ― Mary Oliver

[wedarkacademia]

“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

[wedarkacademia]

“Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.”  ― Ashleigh Brilliant

[wedarkacademia]

“This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.”     ― C. JoyBell C.