February 2012
37 posts
“I have no particular love for the idealised “worker” as he appears in the...”
– George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (via quotemarx)
“Everything great that we know has come from neurotics.”
– Marcel Proust (via yochanah)
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via forfranzkafka)
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via pulmonaire)
“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important...”
– Aldous Huxley (via sunsari)
“The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”
– Helen Keller (via madaeli26)
“Can we seriously say, that a poor peasant or artisan has a free choice to leave...”
– David Hume, on the social contract and tacit consent. (via asuperfluousman)
“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because...”
– Margaret Atwood (via thenovelapproach)
“The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed...”
– Buddha (via endearingyouare)
“The people who matter will recognise who you are.”
– Alan Cohen (via thefreenomad)
Ya’aburnee
Ya’aburnee Arabic – Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
thefreenomad
“Every day I wake far away from my life.”
– Louis Simpson. “American Dreams” (via youreyesblazeout)
rosa-luna:
Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place.
—-Rabbi Elimelech
“The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.”
– E.E Cummings (via u-f-0)
“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth”
– Mikhail Bakunin (via egyanarchist)
“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say,...”
– Dorothy Day (via haereticum)
“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via solipsism2)
“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (via musiquevisuelle)
“”One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– (via black-culture)
(via kiriamaya)
“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is...”
– Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via jjarichardson)
“I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else’s....”
– Edward Abbey (via human-voices)
“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s...”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (via human-voices)
“I enjoy nightclubs less than I enjoy eating wool.”
– Charlie Brooker (via letmeeatpears)
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
“Because when you’re poor, nothing ever changes. Every idea you have for moving...”
– Caitlin Moran (via letmeeatpears)
January 2012
152 posts
“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...”
– George Orwell (via nevver)
“In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every...”
– Aldous Huxley (via solitaryforager)
“The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via substancem)
“And I think about my mother and me, and about the way unconditional love has...”
– Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (via thechocolatebrigade)
“The sadness will last forever.”
– Suicide note of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
“I’m not ashamed to ‘dress like a woman’ because I don’t think it’s shameful to...”
– Iggy Pop (via anorable)
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck (via incurablysensitive)
“A day in which nothing bad happens is a miracle, a day in which all the things...”
– All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland (via thechocolatebrigade)
“In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn,...”
– Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Show a girl a pioneering hero – Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo,...”
– Caitlin Moran How To Be a Woman