May 2013
“… and I’m not afraid of a beating. Know, sir, that such beatings are not only...”
– Marmeladov in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky (via happycuckoldress)
“…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no...”
– ― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (via xkeepmovingforwardx)
“All that philosophy can do is to destroy idols. And that means not creating a...”
– Wittgenstein, “Big Typescript Sections 86-93” in Philosophical Occasions, 88. (via eto-ee-eto)
I have been this way since the day that I was born
I have been trying to change but I am so easily bored
by the idea of saying ‘thank you’ and ‘how are you’
I would like to be loved and I am trying my best
But the devil is inside me and he is coming out through my chest
And he is whispering in my ear that everyone in the world would like me dead
“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the...”
– Haruki Murakami (via perfect)
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
– G. K. Chesterton (via larmoyante)
“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via luniversale)
I am sick and I am dull
and I am plain
how dearly I’d love to get carried away
oh but dreams have a knack of just not coming true
and time is against me now
“‘So, you also love life?’
‘Yes, I also love life, what of it?’
‘Yet you’ve...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons (via blacktout)
“[W]e’ve all grown unaccustomed to life, we’re all lame, each of us more or less....”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via morphinith)
“Such were my reveries as I sat at home that evening, barely alive from the pain...”
– Notes from the Underground by Fyodr Dostoevsky (via dispirited-contrarian)
“Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be...”
– Joseph Campbell (via theballerinapig)
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth...”
– Sigmund Freud (via l-u-x-i-o)
April 2013
“We [philosophers] are not the people to come to if you want confirmation that...”
– Richard Rorty (via modestproposals)
“My trunk is twisted
and my bark thick, but my leaves,
my leaves are splendid.”
– by Tyler Knott Gregson (via mirroir)
“As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good...”
– Laurie Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength (via castofblue)
“People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to...”
– Abraham Hicks (via down2camelot)
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via jujutsu-with-zizek)
“I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that...”
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair (via strangefatality)
it makes me feel good that i made something that i...
“Language is the first and last structure of madness, its constituent form; on...”
– Foucault, Madness and Civilization (via indecisivesioness)
dailynietzsche:
“Are we asking too much if we seek the company of men who have grown gentle, well-tasting and nutritious like chestnuts from the fire? Such men who expect little from life, are too proud ever to be able to feel themselves rewarded, and are too serious in their passion for knowledge and honesty to have time or inclination for fame? Such men we should call philosophers.”
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“Behind the glorification of “work” and the tireless talk of the “blessings of...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn (via helikaon)
“I am well again now and able to enjoy things and am glad that even in the bad...”
“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via crooks-lovers)
“[…]Flee where you will, I am still yours; go to the farthest boundaries of the...”
– Kierkegaard Either/Or from “The Seducer’s Diary” 255 (via totanava)
“The placebo effect is powerful, but if you inject someone with cyanide and tell...”
– Stephen Fry, on QI S09E09 XL (via volextus)
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I would say I’m sorry but I’m not sorry. I would say hey what’s the difference? Entertain my lack of interest. Because the one you are ain’t the one that I’m after, Closing in on your heart with the worst of intentions. I call out. I could send you all away. I can see you from the foot of my bed, I can’t make out a face. Don’t ever ask me how I spend the only part of my life I like all locked...
“The self-judgment which declares that the ego falls short of its ideal produces...”
– Sigmund Freud (via redlabdub)
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...”
– Sigmund Freud (via tashajardine)
“If I described my despair I would be poetizing and legitimizing it. And I’m not...”
– Frances - Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer (via literaryquotations)
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“There was one time, in the U.S., where we had to take David Byrne out to dinner,...”
– Thom Yorke, on the origin Radiohead’s name (via the-king-of-ponytails)
“My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which...”
– Michel Foucault, The Subject of Power (via whoregeoise)
trapghoul:
effective feminism is realizing that every struggle is not your own and that you can’t always relate
