January 2012
1 post
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
1 post
“[…] For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner...”
– ‘Love of Life’ from ’Lyrical and Critical Essays’ by Albert Camus Translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
October 2011
2 posts
1 tag
“Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quiet valid sensation. I realized, in...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via tamburina)
7 tags
September 2011
1 post
2 tags
“I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed...”
– Sylvia Plath (via aeloquence)
June 2011
17 posts
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random...”
– André Malraux, La condition humaine [Man’s Fate] (1933)
“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“I
Know you appear
Vivid at my side,
Denying you sprang out of my head,...”
– Sylvia Plath
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anaïs Nin
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still...”
– Margaret Atwood (via aeloquence)
“He died in a tree from which he wouldn’t come down. “Come down!” they cried to...”
– Franz Kafka is Dead”, Nicole Krauss (via aeloquence)
“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still.
No one has ever heightened such a...”
– Sylvia Plath (via iquotesylviaplath)
May 2011
7 posts
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
– Albert Einstein
“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”
– Sigmund Freud, Letter to fiancée Martha Bernays (via misswallflower)
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
April 2011
11 posts
a kiss of wine we'll disappear
“How we need another soul to cling to.”
– Sylvia Plath (via watercolournights)
“I have a new plan: to go mad.”
– Dostoevsky — Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky (via saintmadness)
March 2011
6 posts
“I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger (via rosaley)
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via quote-book)
21715) My mind is a constant battle between sanity...
February 2011
24 posts
