#relevant quotes

[bearfromthere]

The friend of his youth was dead...And when, after a season, he looked up again from the blindness of his sorrow, all things seemed unreal...He went abroad, that the sea might be between him and the grave. Alas! between him and his sorrow there could be no sea, but that of time.

Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[bearfromthere]

Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Hyperion: A Romance by Henry

Wadsworth Longfellow

[lordofthestrix]

Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves.

[wraithclatter]

“You kill me.”

“What?”

“A hundred years from now there won’t be a single sad fuck to look at any of this. What keeps you going?”

“You know what it is, Theo? I just don’t think about it.”

[fouroclockwren]

“That’s blasphemy!”

“That’s what people say when the voiceless speak”

-Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

[cps-oteric]

“Mr. Palmer had a gentle curiosity that worked like sunlight on me; he asked questions and, beguilingly, listened to the answers. How rare is the man who does that. Perhaps it was a sign of my advancing years that I found such kindness attractive.”

- A Net for Small Fishes, Lucy Jago

[cps-oteric]

“If we treated each moment as though it were a permanent condition, a place where we might find ourselves compelled to remain forever, how differently most of us would choose the things that moment contains! […] …but it requires a great deal of discipline and a degree of puritanical cold-heartedness to live in that way.”

- Rachel Cusk, Second Place

[cps-oteric]

“Some of the most interesting writers could pass as bank managers, I said, while the wittiest raconteur could become dull once he had recognized the necessity of explaining his anecdotes piece by piece. Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment, I said, and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards.”

- Rachel Cusk, Second Place