January 2012
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I...
– Franz Kafka (via aepocrypha)
the bends
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you’ve worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.
December 2011
Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.
– Tilopa (via tokiwoki)
You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?
– Dr. Seuss (via yesimsexie)
Man’s freedom and man’s responsibility exist independently. But, in the last...
– Viktor Frankl, The Doctor and the Soul. (via ex-ist)
I’m in love with figuring out how things work. And the existence or nonexistence...
– Derrick Jensen, Endgame (via cultureofresistance)
There’s nothing we really need to do that isn’t dangerous.
– John Cage
My heart’s aflutter!
I am standing in the bath tub
crying. Mother, mother
who...
– Frank O’Hara: Mayakovsky (via soia)
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...
– (via starsandsounds)
November 2011
October 2011
They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as...
– Malcolm X (via literarydopeness)
observando:
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
-Edgar Allan Poe
mushishii:
“I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world, I said after giving it some thought. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.”
- Norwegian Wood
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now...
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via ofmelancholyandennui)
We have to change our values. We have to think about how we can get happy. It’s...
– Haruki Murakami to the New York Times Magazine (via mlawyue)
“Just one thing” she says, raising her head and looking at me straight in the...
– (via setouquotes)
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
– Goethe (via yesimsexie)
Our bodies know what is right, if only we listen to them. Beneath the...
– Derrick Jensen, Endgame (via cultureofresistance)