Lofty tales so tried and true

Well, it's a big, big city

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[thismodernthought]

I'm only cryptic and Machiavellian because I care

Mastermind (Taylor Swift)

[wordsnquotes]

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

[thequotejournals]

I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes closed.

Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (via wordsnquotes)

[thequotejournals]

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via wordsnquotes)

[luthienne]

My spring melancholy is developing in these hot days into summer madness.

Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Emma Vaughan, from Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (via down-the-rabbith0le)

[thismodernthought]

It’s pills, not love, that make people walk over broken glass at midnight.

Deadeye Dick (Kurt Vonnegut)

[wordsnquotes]

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

[thismodernthought]

We all see our lives as stories, it seems to me, and I am convinced that psychologists and sociologists and historians and so on would find it useful to acknowledge that.

Deadeye Dick (Kurt Vonnegut)

[thelovejournals]

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Fannie Flagg)

[wordsnquotes]

Man is defined as a human being and woman is defined as a female. Whenever she tries to behave as a human being she is accused of trying to emulate the male.

The Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir)

[thismodernthought]

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Deadeye Dick (Kurt Vonnegut)

[wordsnquotes]

I thought, ‘You smell like a library.’ But I wanted to have sex right then, so I said, ‘You smell like a poem'

The Wonder Spot (Melissa Bank)

[lobbygrl]

If you’re lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.

Ezra Koenig

[wordsnquotes]

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Stranger Than Fiction (Chuck Palahniuk)

[wordsnquotes]

Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me.

Sylvia Plath

[watchoutforintellect]

I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Allen Ginsberg