December 2011
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The feelings that hurt the most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an...
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I wonder how it all got started, this business
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– “The Art of Drowning” by Billy Collins (via clavicola)
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There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad of it. Between one point on the map and another point on the map, there was the being alone in the car in the rain. They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren’t any other people there wouldn’t be any you because what you do which is what you are, only has...
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I don’t want to be miserable anymore but sadly that’s not the way life works. You never get what you want. This isn’t like wishing for better grades or anything, this is simply asking to be content and your existence to be erased from my memory.
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That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
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Maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds of coincidences are...
– Haruki Murakami (via black-wolves)
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I gave you too many chances to show you cared. And I threw myself your way too many times. I took you for what I thought you could be.. and I let myself create an alternate you, that I guess didn’t exist. No one else saw it, but I would see depth in you. But we don’t always see clearly. Guess that’s what happens when you don’t take people for who they say they are. Reality can...
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