"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via khadeejafinds)(via tonyivan)
"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."
— Charles Bukowski (via lastdaysofmagic)
"Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it’s all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I’m attending here is a show with another set. And the show I’m attending is myself."
— Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)(via violent-buddhist)
"I don’t want to face this world, let’s get back to the hellish one I’m imagining."
— Alasdair Gray (via frenchtwist)
"Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?"
— Emil Cioran (via comfortably-dumb)(Source: wholesale-hedonism, via aequoris)
"I suppose like others
I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on crashes, drunk at sea,
and I have listened to the simple sound of water running
in tubs
and wished to drown"
— Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last (via violent-buddhist)I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on crashes, drunk at sea,
and I have listened to the simple sound of water running
in tubs
and wished to drown"
(Source: thistakesupspace, via violent-buddhist)
"Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quiet valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one."
— Fernando Pessoa (via tamburina) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
"When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. The ultimate why, that great why is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out, there is nothing more to make out."
— Eugene Ionesco, Fragments of a Journal (via sixstepsback)(Source: onthepermafrost, via fuckyeahexistentialism)
"I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via sp-illl)(Source: forbiddenalleys, via littleknives)
"Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful."
— Paul Tillich
"Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes."
— Jean Paul Sartre
