January 2011
13 posts
“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. and there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
—Ted Bundy (via makingdens)
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Don’t you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don’t know a soul?”
—Haruki Murakami (via 120mm)
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. What are we, anyway? Most of what we think we are is just a collection of likes and dislikes, habits, patterns. At the core of what we are is our values, and what decisions and actions we make reflect those values. That is why it’s hard doing interviews and being visible: As you are growing and changing, the more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you that it thinks you are, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to go, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.”
—Steve Jobs - Playboy 1985 (via whereisthecoool)
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.”
—Khalil Gibran
“It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.”
—Rose Kennedy
“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.”
—François de la Rochefoucauld
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
—Albert Einstein
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
—François de la Rochefoucauld
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
—Confucius
“What is food to one is to others bitter poison.”
—Lucretious
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe
December 2010
13 posts
“Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.”
—Sir Peter Ustinov
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
—Samuel Johnson
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
—Joseph Conrad
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”
—Neil Gaiman (via sewer-king)
“If we all knew what we wanted we wouldn’t get to experience the journey of discovering ourselves.”
—Matthew Villagran (via wildlawl)
“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”
—Charles Bukowski (via airplanesandrunways)
“The world fascinates me,” she whispered.
He smiled, “Good. Then we shall explore it all.” —Short stories (via somethingintellectual)
He smiled, “Good. Then we shall explore it all.” —Short stories (via somethingintellectual)
