There's an art to everything

"Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones."

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:05:07 -0400

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, from Selected Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)

"My roommate’s not suicidal But it sounds sexier than saying that she closes her eyes sometimes..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:20:52 -0400

“My roommate’s not suicidal
But it sounds sexier than saying
that she closes her eyes sometimes
when she’s changing lanes.”

- Chad Anderson (via writingsforwinter)

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” (Abraham Lincoln)

Sun, 12 May 2013 17:27:18 -0400

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

(Abraham Lincoln)

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Tue, 07 May 2013 22:53:04 -0400

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Thu, 02 May 2013 23:10:08 -0400

"I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:17:45 -0400

“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”

- Franz Kafka; from a diary entry dated 23 March 1914. (via violentwavesofemotion)

"One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:16:50 -0400

““One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.””

- Steve Maraboli (via elige)

e.e. cummings, Book un-dedication to the 14 publishers who...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:04:44 -0400

e.e. cummings, Book un-dedication to the 14 publishers who rejected him, artfully arranged as a concrete poem in the form of a funeral urn. +

"But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:05:33 -0400

“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.”

- Margaret Atwood (via dulcetdecember)

my final thought before making most decisions: fuck it

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:36:15 -0400

my final thought before making most decisions: fuck it

"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:01:20 -0400

““I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.””

- Nikos Kazantzakis, from Zorba the Greek (John Lehmann, Ltd., 1946)

“No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one’s dark moods. Love can help, it can make...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:52:29 -0400

“No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one’s dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable.”

(Kay Redfield Jamison, “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”)

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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:49:11 -0400

I’ve been saying I would join the gym for 4 years and I finally did it and I went on the...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:52:00 -0400

I’ve been saying I would join the gym for 4 years and I finally did it and I went on the stationary bike for an hour yesterday and then I started sneezing and obviously I am allergic to exercise.

Truth.

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:06:48 -0400

Truth.

“I fall in love with ideas and fantasies rather than whole beings and then I sit here and...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:19:00 -0400

“I fall in love with ideas and fantasies rather than whole beings and then I sit here and wonder why I’m still alone. It’s because I don’t fucking pay attention. I’m too busy thinking about tomorrow that today falls through the cracks.”

(Ryan O’Connell, “I’m Trying to Love You More”)

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:55:33 -0400

““No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.””

- C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed (via thefreenomad)

mythologyofblue: Melancholic, one of the four bodily humors...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:17:07 -0400

mythologyofblue:

Melancholic, one of the four bodily humors part of Shakespearean cosmology, inherited from the ancient Greek philosophers Aristotle, Hippocrates, and Galen.

"And there’s something else. On a regular basis, I will be walking around, going about my business,..."

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:50:34 -0500

“And there’s something else. On a regular basis, I will be walking around, going about my business, and I’ll see the Empire State Building or the Brooklyn Bridge and it’ll suddenly hit me again. My God. I live here. In a city some people dream their whole lives of just seeing once. That’s pretty goddamn magical.”

- from this amazing post about “on not being middle class in New York City” (via remnant)

Want.

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:07:43 -0500

Want.