Azriela's Little Dark Wonderland

Tea drinker. Chocolate eater. Book reader. Moon gazer. Mythology enthusiast. Vampire aficionado. Romanticism devotee. Dreamer with great love for animals. “Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.”...

[biipolarpriincess]

[love-abia]

A Little of Everything by Abi Ashra (Tumblr)

[witchedways-blog]

bewitched forest 

[purplebuddhaproject]

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via purplebuddhaproject)

[wordsnquotes]

Being a person is getting too complicated.

Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (via wordsnquotes)

[halls-of-nienna]

448384 par Natan Vance

[vampireazriela]

The Watcher by wyldraven

[quotes-shape-us]

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Neil Gaiman (via quotes-shape-us)

[vampireazriela]

Dragon's night by eronzki999

[vampireazriela]

Howl by wyldraven

[vampireazriela]

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

[natasailincic]

The Norns, rulers of the destiny of gods and men

This piece will appear on the back cover of The Illuminated Edda. Ink, watercolour, ps. [Facebook • DeviantArt • Blogspot] © Nataša Ilinčić, please do not remove credits

[vampireazriela]

When we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to depict them as they really are than as they would wish to appear. To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light, is doubtless the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of life to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? O Reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts–this whispering 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

Anne Brontë, defending her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which was criticized for being overly graphic and disturbing

[vampireazriela]

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) - Moonlight on the Lake; Roundhay Park, Leeds

[vincentvangogh-art]

What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

Vincent van Gogh (via vincentvangogh-art)

[vampireazriela]

Carl Gustav Carus (1789 – 1869), Stone Age Mound

[silvaris]

Celestial Castle by Perez Alonso Photography

[ex0skeletal]

by Anne Lambelet