"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
(Source: philosophy-quotes)
"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."
— Maurice Sendak (1928 - 2012).
Rest in peace, you beautiful man.
(Source: nedhepburn, via nefariousnewt)
"Writers aren’t exactly people… they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one person."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
"That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
— Charles Bukowski
"The happiness of our lives depends on the quality of our thoughts."
— Marcus Aurelius
(Source: mybluecanoe, via unejeunedemoiselle)
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
— Sylvia Plath—The Bell Jar
(Source: bookmania)
"Besides, he only liked dark-haired women. “I agree with you,” said the pharmacist; “they’re more hot-blooded."
— Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
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“Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.” ― Charles Bukowski
(Source: perhapsastranger, via liquidmoonsoul)
"Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving."
— Anna Kamieńska, In That Great River: A Notebook
(Source: bookmania)
"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction—every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour."
— Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
(Source: 110192, via ineffa-ble)
"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right to not only be right, but also to be wrong."
— Thomas S. Szasz
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus
"No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That’s all."
— Haruki Murakami: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (24 Stories)
"This loops around to the theme expressed in the season premiere and in many of the episodes since, I think: There’s nothing wrong with being happy. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying something so much that it strips away all that irony and cynicism. And there’s nothing wrong with loving anything so much that it feels like it could pull your heart out of your chest and toss it on the floor. We build ourselves up to not do that, and then we build up the armor so thickly that we have trouble finding what’s underneath. We use that as an excuse to lash out at people who do feel stuff, who do like things (and I am, of course, mostly saying this about myself). It’s hard sometimes to remember that the world isn’t a place to glide through, so nothing can touch you. It’s a place to be experienced."
— Community: Regional Holiday Music
(Source: The A.V. Club, via communitythings)
