June 2011
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“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
– Clara Schumann (via lucette)
November 2010
27 posts
“Only the inner protection of patience can keep us from experiencing the turmoil...”
– Dalai Lama on Twitter (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Yes, light, there is no other word for it.”
– Samuel Beckett (via aperfectcommotion)
“There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force – a wild pain and...”
– David Lynch. From You Are Remarkable. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
– Charles Baudelaire (via elegantslum)
“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it...”
– Don DeLillo, Underworld (via liquidnight)
Visiting the Graveyard
crashinglybeautiful:
When I think of death it is a bright enough city, and every year more faces there are familiar but not a single one notices me, though I long for it, and when they talk together, which they do very quietly, it’s in an unknowable language - I can catch the tone but understand not a single word - and when I open my eyes there’s the mysterious field, the beautiful trees. There...
“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the...”
– Woody Allen (via wordpainting)
“Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.”
– Leonard Cohen (via feedyourhead & libraryland) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Music is silence too.”
– Sun Ra (via silencesounds)
“You are the music while the music lasts”
– T.S Eliot (via ratak-monodosico)
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“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the...”
– George Orwell (via libraryland)
October 2010
105 posts
youdsay:
nothing cures an existential crisis like chex mix and reality tv reruns
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“Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past...”
– T.S. Eliot, “The Four Quartets, No. I: Burnt Norton” (via tseliot, sherrymonocle & aperfectcommotion) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Someday I hope to say something profound...
deepthinking:
…or at least pithy
“No one else knew she had a knack of keeping still, without even a book on her...”
– from Atonement by Ian McEwan (crevette fumée:) (via awritersruminations) (via booklover)
“When I say not to think, I mean that if you have a thought, think nothing of it.”
– Zen Master on meditation (via bidzovka, fuckyeahzenmind, nowyouliftyoureyestothesun, parkstepp & sacredgraffiti) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of...”
– Krzysztof Kieślowski (Submitted by jadabh) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my...”
– Dylan Thomas, Clown in the Moon (via morningsasaghost)
“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it,...”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via booksetc) (via booklover)
“Who hasn’t asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
– Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star (Submitted by substitutescene) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)