A favourite , always !
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
— Haruki Murakami
““You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.””
— Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (via hplyrikz)
“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
I can't make you understand. I can't make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I can't even explain it to myself.
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.
— Haruki Murakami
Russell Lee. Movie theater. Southside, Chicago, Illinois. 1941
“I know you, and stare at you in silence.”
— Arthur Rimbaud, from ‘Flowerbeds of Amaranths’
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.
(via minuty)
What has made me speak less with each passing day? I watch the dragonfly escape the lizard by inches and I decide to stay. I want my words and my life to escape death. So every time I try exaggerating my empathy , the insouciance, and the ability to extract only the bad side of my words and my life makes me edge closer to silence. I do not want to throttle my words to death.