“Everyday I Come To The Same Place And Wait Until The Sun Catches Up With My Mood.”

The greatest pleasure of life is sensation,

To feel that we exist,

Even in pain.

-Lord Byron

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” — Paul Cézanne

The heart has its storms, has its seasons of drooping but also its calms and even its times of exaltation. There is a time of sighing and of praying but there is also a time of answer to prayer. Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.

Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo van Gogh, 3 November 1876 (via weltenwellen)

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

what do you mean i can’t attend a mysterious but prestigious boarding school in the late sixties and make friends for life whilst falling in love with a stranger and hanging around in the libraries (all set to a dark indie soundtrack)?

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

when the quarantine is over we are bringing back the cult of dionysus

“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange