January 2012
45 posts
“Here is something to fight; and when I wake early I say to myself Fight, fight....”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 11 October 1929 (via proustitute)
“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want...”
– Unknown (via kari-shma)
“How rare, two lovers scribbling away,
admiring each other’s words in privacy.”
– Maxine Kumin, from “Sonnets Uncorseted” (via proustitute)
“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski (via andwhisper)
“Some of the cities were outside of me and others were inside.”
– Vanessa Veselka, Zazen (via proustitute)
“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -...”
– Eddie Cantor (via kari-shma)
“If an answer were possible death would not travel alongside life, life would not...”
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions I, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via kari-shma)
“Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl (via kari-shma)
“Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go.”
– Jon Dyer (via kari-shma)
“We are never given dreams without the power to make them come true.”
– Richard Bach (via kari-shma)
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and...”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Lead” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (via proustitute)
“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,...”
– W.B. Yeats, “He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven” (via liquidnight)
“Walk boldly on the white untrodden snows,
The winter is the winter’s own...”
– Helen Hunt Jackson, from “January” (via proustitute)
“Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it’s what’s in the middle...”
– Hope Floats (via kari-shma)
me when i'm drunk
me: THIS IS SO FUN
drinks
me: OMG SOMEONE TAKE SHOTS WITH ME
drinks
me: I LOVE ALL OF YOU
drinks
me: WHY ARE YOU ALL SO NICE TO ME
drinks
me: DID YOU KNOW THAT I'M SINGLE AGAIN
drinks
me: WHY AM I SO ALONE?
drinks a lot
sings sheryl crow's "first cut is the deepest" while hugging a lamp in the corner of the party and crying
drinks
me: I MESTH ERETYGHINH UP SOMERTONE HERLPS MEF
“There is regret. Always, there is regret.
But it is better that our lives...”
– Philip Larkin, from “Love, We Must Part Now” (via proustitute)
“The act of writing defies all distance.”
– Edmond Jabès, The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
“In your hopelessness is the only hope, and in your desirelessness is your only...”
– Osho (via kari-shma)
“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via maybachs)
“What are days for?
Days are where we live.”
– Philip Larkin, from “Days” (via proustitute)
“I want to love well. To see you as you are, not as a character in my film noir....”
– Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (via e-pic)
“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his...”
– Pablo Neruda (via theparisreview)
“He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.”
– Fanny Hill (via 18thcentury)
“Dreaming is above us, silence below, in stones.”
– Edmond Jabès, from Aely in From the Book to the Book, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop. Thank you proustitute: (adapted from touba)
“A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.”
– Karlfried Graf Durckheim, Hara: The Vital Center of Man, p. 127 (via crashinglybeautiful)
“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (via liquidnight)
“The people who matter will recognise who you are.”
– Alan Cohen (via kari-shma)
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, December 25, 1856 From The Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1861 (via liquidnight)
“No matter what terror or loveliness the earth could produce - winds, seas - a...”
– Lorrie Moore, Birds of America (via laurataylor)
“May we all grow in grace and peace,
and not neglect the silence that is printed...”
– Thomas Merton (Thank you dreaminginthedeepsouth)
“It is better to ask some of the questions than know all the answers.”
– James Thurber (via kari-shma)
“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no...”
– Alan Watts (via kari-shma)
“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the...”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie (via skysignal)
December 2011
42 posts
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck, from “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University (1930)
“Evil is a growing thing
It has its own gravity
and never answers to its name...”
– Fanny Howe, from “One Night in Balthazar” (via proustitute)
“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your...”
– Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival (via whiskey river)