Going Through the Motions

- What are you looking for?  - If only I knew - Then what's the use of looking?

[thevirginlioness]

I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In thousands of agonies — I exist. I'm tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[thevirginlioness]

‘Current Affairs’ from “Short Stories/Tall Tales” series by Grace Weston.

[thevirginlioness]

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing.”

— Baruch Spinoza

[thevirginlioness]

[thelovejournals]

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma (via thevirginlioness)

[thevirginlioness]

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818

[thevirginlioness]

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”

— A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut (via thevirginlioness)

[thevirginlioness]

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you.”

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

[thevirginlioness]

[thevirginlioness]

Mon chat et moi (autoportrait avec son chat), 1932, by Italian  photographer Wanda Wulz, who created this image by printing two negatives-one of her face, the other of the family cat, on a single sheet of photographic paper #womensart 

(cr.  @womensart1 )

[thevirginlioness]

Mon chat et moi (autoportrait avec son chat), 1932, by Italian  photographer Wanda Wulz, who created this image by printing two negatives-one of her face, the other of the family cat, on a single sheet of photographic paper #womensart 

(cr.  @womensart1 )

[dailyghibli]

[theliteraryjournals]

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it’s much the same.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin  (via theliteraryjournals)

[last-picture-show]

Alexey Titarenko, White Dresses, St. Petersbnurg, Russia, 1995

[pasiflora]

[jinxproof]

ph. Irving Penn | Issey Miyake, 1990

[thevirginlioness]

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Baruch Spinoza