January 2012
28 posts
1 tag
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...”
– Sylvia Plath (via shadowsholdtheirbreath)
2 tags
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via arpegios)
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath (via roscoe-)
“When I was 18 I wanted to fuck on the floor and break shit. When I was 25 I...”
– Sylvia Plath (via d8rape)
4 tags
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via troubled)
8 tags
“For the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a...”
– Angela Carter
(via grecianurn)
8 tags
“‘That’s the thing about pain,’ Augustus said, and then glanced back at me.
‘It...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via shadowsholdtheirbreath)
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes...”
– Robert Frost
“You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want...”
– Sheila Graham
“It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.”
– Marge Piercy
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...”
– Buddha
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find...”
– Robert Fulghum
“My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any...”
– Jessie B. Rittenhouse
“For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than...”
– Rosemonde Gerard
“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook...”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have...”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something...”
– Christopher Morley
“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped,...”
– Cynthia Ozick
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
– Thoreau
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,...”
– Oscar Wilde
“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate...”
– Sydney J. Harris
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
– Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and...”
– Dr. Suess
“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it...”
– Agatha Christie
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”
– Jewish Proverb
“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”
– Shakespeare
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– M. Kathleen Casey
December 2011
63 posts
“After all this love, after the birds rip like scissors
through the morning sky,...”
– Richard Jackson, ‘After All This’ (via grecianurn)
6 tags
“Whenever I see you, sound fails, my heart falters, thin fire steals through my...”
– Catullus (via grecianurn)
6 tags
“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you...”
– Tennessee Williams (via grecianurn)
10 tags
“Paper has more patience than people.”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (via grecianurn)
5 tags
“I’ll tell you what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via grecianurn)
5 tags
“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn’t keep growing inside my...”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (via grecianurn)
1 tag
“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...”
– Sylvia Plath (via alysian-fields)
7 tags
“I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via grecianurn)
8 tags
“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for...”
– Mary Shelly, Frankenstein (via grecianurn)
4 tags
“I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and I am...”
– Jane Austen (via grecianurn)
1 tag
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness....”
– Anne Frank (via myquotelibrary)
1 tag
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep...”
– Jordan Belfort (via myquotelibrary)
2 tags
“When you can feel someone else’s pain and joy as if it’s your own, thats when...”
– Ann Brashares (The Third Summer of the Sisterhood)
2 tags
“Sometimes it’s not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside...”
– Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)
3 tags
“Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they are accidents. But to...”
– Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere’s Fan)
1 tag
“Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck,...”
– Life is Funny (via julie911)
3 tags
“If a man has to say trust me it’s a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is....”
– Juliet Marillier (Wildwood Dancing)
“And what does it mean — dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the...”
– Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard (via pavorst)
“I love being in cities with lots of other people because I’m reminded that there...”
– John Green (submitted by fieldsofdandelions)
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via decrepito)
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell, 1984 (via solipsism2)
6 tags
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering...”
– Thomas Paine (via curiouslycool)