January 2010
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I...
Jonathan Safran Foer
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that...”
– Charles Dickens
“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny...”
– Hazel Lee
“I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset now.”...”
– from ‘The Little Prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“So in looking to stray from the line
we decided instead
we should pull out the...”
– Elbow
“Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless.”
– Björk
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what...”
– Epicurus
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Sehnsucht/ Longing
Das ist die Sehnsucht: wohnen im Gewoge und keine Heimat haben in der Zeit. Und das sind Wünsche: leise Dialoge täglicher Stunden mit der Ewigkeit. Und das ist Leben. Bis aus einem Gestern die einsamste Stunde steigt, die, anders lächelnd als die andern Schwestern, dem Ewigen entgegenschweigt.
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That is longing: living in turmoil and having no home in time and those are wishes: gentle...
“… And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.”
– Pablo Neruda
“Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits into this empty...”
– My So-Called Life (via chocolate-cigarettes) (via theseviolentdelights)
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Here comes that feeling you thought you'd...
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“It has been said, ‘Time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The...”
– Rose Kennedy
“… So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into...”
– from ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus
“And yet, you’re still alone. All that trying and still you stand apart, watching...”
– Libba Bray (via quotesixty)
“One word I would banish from the dictionary is ‘escape.’
Just...”
– Anaïs Nin
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big...”
– from ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D. Salinger (1 January 1919 – 27 January 2010)
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
– from a headstone in Ireland