#torments

[charl0ttan]

Have you found the cup or the scepter yet

[jamalsuleiman]

لقد أردت دائما الهروب، من الناس والعالم والأشياء، وحتى من نفسي، لكن شيئا مجهولا يقيدني لا أدري ما هو، ولا أعرف حتى كيف أتخلص منه!

[beljar]

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

[theinwardlight]

[elizabethanism]

"Solitude torments me; company oppresses me." ~ Fernado Pessoa

[1five1two]

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

[inthemarginalized]