June 2011
2 posts
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing...
“This place makes me wonder: which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man…”
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it’s what man does with what happens to...”
– Aldous Huxley (via @johannal)
September 2010
0 posts
August 2010
5 posts
July 2010
1 post
“Did you ever consider that LSD and color tv arrived for our consumption about...”
– Charles Bukowski (via suzywire) (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
June 2010
5 posts
“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her....”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via plumfield) (via distantheartbeats) (via quote-book)
May 2010
5 posts
“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously...”
– Albert Camus (via #johannal) (via quote-book)
“I wrote a letter to my Dad. I was going to write “I really enjoyed being here”,...”
– Mitch Hedburg (via lindsaythom)
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
– Charles Bukowski (via suzywire) (via quote-book)
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not...”
– Albert Camus (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
April 2010
3 posts
“There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse...”
– Tennessee Williams (submitted by AznxxNugget) (via quote-book)
“Before we were we
you were every thought and dream
of a lonely me.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott) (via quote-book)
March 2010
21 posts
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow...”
– Pablo Neruda
Submitted by: love documents
(via quote-book)
“I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is...”
– Albert Camus (via quote-book)
“I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you...”
– David Levithan (via kidlovesdoodles) (via quote-book)
“‘Happy,’ I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words,...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
(Submitted by: christinakim)
(via quote-book)
“This radical idea — the scientists were suggesting that depressive disorder came...”
– Jonah Lehrer, Depression’s Upside (New York Times Magazine) (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
“Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via yearslater) (via quote-book)
I have
Lost my voice.
“The hospital will provide dictionaries, bring a thesaurus.”
– Oscar, The Office (via writingsarah) (via quote-book)
“It seems like everyone is sleep-walking through their waking state or...”
– Waking life (via quote-book)
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– Carl Jung (via catapleustico) (via quote-book)
“If you are weary
and your smile abandons you,
I will give you mine.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott) (via quote-book)
“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson. Submitted by: earf (via quote-book)
“In my next life I want to live backwards. You start out dead and get that out of...”
– Woody Allen | Submitted by xaviaa (via quote-book)
“The trouble with the world is that it’s always one drink behind.”
– Humphrey Bogart (submitted by waitingforthis) (via quote-book)
“As I ask you to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at...”
I stood upon a high place,And saw, below, many devilsRunning, leaping,and carousing in sin.One looked up, grinning,And said, “Comrade! Brother!” I posted this before, but I just love it to death and wanted to remind everyone how great Stephen Crane is.
I looked here;I looked there;Nowhere could I see my love.And — this time —She was in my heart.Truly, then, I have no complaint,For though she be fair and fairer,She is none so fair as sheIn my heart Stephen Crane
“Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”
– Aldous Huxley (via blogut) (via quote-book)
February 2010
6 posts
“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”
– T. S. Eliot (via the100rabh) (via quote-book)
“We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have...”
– Milan Kundera (via quote-book)
I really like this but I also feel like children are very much lacking in self-identity.
“The sun always knows
exactly where to linger
to light up your cheeks.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“One of the few domains in which I am a consistent pragmatist is pragmatism...”
– Ian Hacking: Mad Travelers (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
