another forgotten soul

[thoughtkick]

“A lot of people tell me I’m a bit dreamy. But I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”

— Alex Turner

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“I believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”

— Susan Cain

[thoughtkick]

“Thank you for misunderstanding me, rejecting me and not seeing me and teaching me to always see myself.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”

— Tennessee Williams, The Selected Letters: 1920-1945 (via perfeqt)

[thoughtkick]

“I am afraid I will be like this forever.”

—

Sierra DeMulder, “Today Means Amen”

(via perfeqt)

[thoughtkick]

“I’m homesick all the time … I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”

— Sarah Addison Allen (via perfeqt)

[thebookquotes]

It's spring, you're young, you're lovely, you have a right to be happy. Come back into the world.

— Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

[thoughtkick]

“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”

— Myra McEntire (via quotefeeling)

[imtiredofactingokay]

“No one asks if I’m okay and I’m both grateful and disappointed.”

— me

[gosutorein]

“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (via wordsnquotes)

[gosutorein]

“I was calm, no one wants the kind of calm I was.”

— Stephen Dunn, from New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994; “The Waiting,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

empty

(via heaventalk)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Keep the ones who heard you when you never said a word.”

— Unknown

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“I can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in me.”

— Unknown

[actuallywatson]

“That’s the thing about introverts; we wear our chaos in the inside where no-one can see it.”

— Michaela Chung (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[gosutorein]

“Sometimes I sit and realise I am the source of my own insanity. And there is no method to the self torture I inflict upon half healed wounds and old battle scars. Now that is true madness.”

— venomousvelvet (via wordsnquotes)

[drowsydrunk]

“I feel that I’m cut off from all humankind. I don’t even know how I can last one week. I feel like putting my head on your shoulder and weeping from sheer homesickness.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written June 20, 1951 (via serpenstiarae)