“Sometimes I come to hate people because they can’t see where I am. I’ve gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form: my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat. But I’m fucking empty. The person I was just one year ago no longer exists, drifts spinning slowly into the ether somewhere way back there.”
—David Wojnarowicz (via venula)
January 2012
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“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.”
—Anneli Rufus (via dishevelment)
“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy”
—Edgar Allan Poe (via indiaansummer)
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted (via girlinlondon)
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (via myquotelibrary)
“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.”
—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via nirvikalpa)
“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated)
