January 2012
5 posts
i must always have my fingers in the world's pie:... →
worn-in-perfection:
i hear the train all night. the sound of its wind blowing through our subtle lives. and i have a job to do, walking these cars, walking all asleep to get to you. but i don’t feel you stir beside me, and you’re not in my morning hours. some ties are made to break, some stocks grow high and green…
December 2011
9 posts
November 2011
11 posts
“When shall we meet again? When will the earthy taste of your lips come again to...”
– Antonin Artaud, Art and Death. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“[…] For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner...”
– ‘Love of Life’ from ’Lyrical and Critical Essays’ by Albert Camus Translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Sadness is what you are, do not deny it. The universe is a lonely place, a...”
– Caterine Vauban in “I ♥ Huckabees” (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
– A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (via thechocolatebrigade)
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic...”
– Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
October 2011
23 posts
“Sometimes, late at night, visited by dread and shame, I lie in bed and think...”
– Enlightened, on HBO
“Sometimes I think about someone else’s life. I imagine all the love they do not...”
– Amy Jellicoe, Enlightened
“Life has no genuine intrinsic worth, but is kept in motion merely by want and...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Don’t worry. War or peace-it’s all the same.”
“All the same?” said Jacques in...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, The Reprieve (via greatrelease)
“Women in the Middle East are Haute Couture’s biggest market, says this...”
– 5 days ago, India Times
“LONDON | NEW DELHI: India, the world’s second most-populous country, has...”
– The Economic Times
I just realized that what I like about Twitter is that it’s not dependent on comments or replies like Facebook, Google+, or Diaspora. When I want to say something quickly, efficiently - it will ALWAYS be Twitter for me. All the other platforms feel so dependent on my words getting “liked” or “commented” - and many times what I have to say does not merit or require any...
“It seems
our own impermanence is concealed from us.
The trees stand firm, the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Second Duino Elegy (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
2 tags
“Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own...”
– The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
September 2011
31 posts
1 tag
“Time is an element in our brain which by the means of duration gives a semblance...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, The Emptiness Of Existence (via onthought)
The awkward moment when you try to get over...