May 2013
Thing #71I have grown to dislike
How people speak of people who have overcome depression. I just saw a joke post regarding Kanye stating that you should think of yourself the way Kanye does, and there was a response akin to “this is so great because he had depression and this sort of confidence helped him and look at him now.” Prime example of what I mean. Somehow anyone that has gone from having depression to not...
“I would like to give you the silver
branch, the small white flower, the one...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “Variation on the Word Sleep” (via commovente)
“You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed, discouraged, and...”
– Haruki Murakami (via sadseas)
Watchnpr:
(via The National: Falling For ‘Graceless’ : NPR)
The band performs a special studio session for New York City’s WFUV in advance of its new sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me. Watch The National perform “Graceless,” live from The Cutting Room Studios in Manhattan.
“Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in...”
– Charles Bukowski, Let it Enfold You (via heavydrug)
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy (via thisisntanthony)
“And this is how we danced: our mothers’
white dresses spilling from our feet,...”
– “Home Wrecker,” Ocean Vuong (via beautyisanillusion)
“Dean’s California - wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and...”
– Jack Kerouac, ‘On The Road’. (via imxnotxlost)
“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the...”
– Marianne Williamson (via creatingaquietmind)
When he flies me to the top there’s nothing...
“We’ll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white,...”
– Lauren DeStefano, from Sever (via the-final-sentence)
“‘The fifth effect has more to do with you, how you’re perceived. It’s powerful...”
– David Foster Wallace — from The Pale King (via slothnorentropy)
“I automatically assume people won’t like me, so I don’t talk to them unless they...”
– Stephanie Kuehnert, Ballads of Suburbia (via larmoyante)
“He should have something to say to her, since it had been so long, but he...”
– Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities (via nineteencigarettes)
“So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though...”
– David Marusek (via larmoyante)
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via beautyisanillusion)
“I open your legs with my knee so I don’t have to stain my hands on your light....”
– Hungry Moon (via dreamfuzzin)
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus (via poetrea)
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– Bell Hooks (via mishproductions)
“People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and...”
– Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story (via itsjustalilstigma)
“It’s okay to lock yourself in the medicine cabinet,
to drink all the wine, to...”
– Rachel McKibbens, “A Letter From My Heart to My Brain” (via audrotas)
“What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in...”
– Mark Strand, from “No Words Can Describe It” (via awritersruminations)
“It was the strangest thing, but for the first time in a long time I almost felt...”
– Bill Bryson, from The Lost Continent (via the-final-sentence)
“Stop focusing on all the things you don’t know how to do and start cultivating...”
– ~~Acoustic Imagery~~ (via bealightinthedark)
“I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in...”
– Paul Gilmartin (via hanging-teeth)
“It’s really scary when you get attached to someone. You spend time with them,...”
– Unknown (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
“There was always the hunger,
The death of small things
Somewhere in your body”
– Thomas James, from “Two Aunts” (via awritersruminations)
“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers...”
– Charles Bukowski (via sadsapling)
“So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though...”
– David Marusek (via larmoyante)
“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via thatkindofwoman)
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
– Walt Whitman (via thatkindofwoman) 