“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
—Anaïs Nin (via fuckyeahanaisnin)
April 2011
“That is the weakest way of enjoying life: to let it whip you…. Pain is something to master, not wallow in.”
—Anaïs Nin (via fuckyeahanaisnin)
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
—Anaïs Nin (via ohsaudade) (via fuckyeahanaisnin)
“Your eyes make me shy.”
—Anaïs Nin (via kari-shma, via quote-book) (via fuckyeahanaisnin)
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.”
—Anaïs Nin (via fuckyeahanaisnin)
“I’ve discovered as I’ve grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you’re a kid. It isn’t just a straightforward fairytale.”
—Rachel McAdams (via littlemiss)
“God knows I’m not perfect, either. I’ve made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I’ve done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself”
— Hideaki Anno (Groundwork of Evangelion)
“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
—Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (via wordsorcerer)
“I cannot fathom
the burden of loving me.
Thank you, for your love.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
the burden of loving me.
Thank you, for your love.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally, what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.”
—Octavio Paz. Thank you, Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Life goes by so fast.
You only want to do what you think is right.
Close your eyes and then it’s past,
(It’s the) Story of my life…” —Social Distortion- “Story Of My Life” (via quote-book)
You only want to do what you think is right.
Close your eyes and then it’s past,
(It’s the) Story of my life…” —Social Distortion- “Story Of My Life” (via quote-book)
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
—Fernando Pessoa (via quotewhore)
