“I may be feeding an impure hunger.”
— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. September 1907 (via violentwavesofemotion)
— Jeremy Radin, from “So I Locked Myself Inside a Star for Twenty Years.”
Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.
Florence + the Machine
Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.
William Chapman
“I am still learning.”
— Michelangelo
Marian Engel, from Notebooks: “Ah, Mon Cahier, čoute”
Text ID: I fade into dreams.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, from “Carmilla”
Nazim Hikmet, trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
— Unknown
When the shell of the ego has been cracked and there begins to be a consciousness of the subliminal and physiological otherness underlying personality, it sometimes happens that we catch a glimpse, fleeting but apocalyptic, of that other Otherness, which is the Ground of all being.
“there is nothing more powerful than realizing that your wholeness is not defined by anything but you. people may add onto the beautiful pieces that already exist within you, but nothing they do could ever complete you. the keys to your acceptance have always belonged to you.”
— iambrillyant
Quotes that will make you reflect on yourself and the things around you.
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