"Some fall in love.
I shatter."
— Stephin Merritt (via beautyisanillusion)I shatter."
(Source: atomiclanterns, via voodoovixen)
"You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once."
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass (via lastdaysofmagic)
"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)
"I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds."
— Egon Schiele (via littleknives)(Source: horreure, via littleknives)
"Hell won’t be so bad, you know. After all, I’ll be there to keep you company."
— Tess Oliver, Camille (via lastdaysofmagic)
"If I try my best and fail, well, I tried my best."
— Steve Jobs, 1998 (via hpshelton)(via thereisnogod)
"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)
"Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her."
— Marguerite Duras, The Lover
via nymphlight (via frenchtwist)
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