* R[a/u]PTURE *
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
—Gilda Radner (via littlemiss)
April 2009
Famous love letter by Napolean Bonaparte
Paris, December 1795
I wake filled with thoughts of you. Your portrait and the intoxicating evening which we spent yesterday have left my senses in turmoil. Sweet, incomparable Josephine, what a strange effect you have on my heart! Are you angry? Do I see you looking sad? Are you worried?… My soul aches with sorrow, and there can be no rest for you lover; but is there still more in store for me when, yielding to the profound feelings which overwhelm me, I draw from your lips, from your heart a love which consumes me with fire? Ah! it was last night that I fully realized how false an image of you your portrait gives!
You are leaving at noon; I shall see you in three hours.
Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
“In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
- Osbert Sitwell” —http://quotes4everyday.wordpress.com/
- Osbert Sitwell” —http://quotes4everyday.wordpress.com/
It’s a big, bad world full of twists and turns, and people have a way of blinking and missing the moment…
Californication
“It doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe thats the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap…maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.”
—Alex Karev, Grey’s Anatomy (via thoughtsdetained: tvquotes: breathsoftruth) (via thresca) (via infinitebutterflies)
“There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
—Johnny Depp (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
—Louise Erdrich (via thoughtsdetained)
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming – “WOW – What a Ride!”
—Anon (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing”
—Anais Nin (via littlemiss) (via un-tout-petit-coeur)
