"It is necessary to fall in love, if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."
Albert Camus (via faulknerandfieldnotes)
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"We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s."
Kifah Shah (via myheadisbloodybutunbowed)
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"But sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don’t really know we are sad. So we say we aren’t sad. But really we are."
Mark Haddon (via an-artful-life)
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"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."
Charles Bukowski (via villegasbobby)
(Source: clairvoyant---disease, via kaitmpayne)
"
I was angry, so I went for a run. And things got better.
I was confused, so I went for a run. And things got better.
I was exhausted, so I went for a run. And things got better.
I was lost, unsure, empty, afraid. Certain that whatever was left of my sanity had snapped, had come untethered and floated away, to a place so high and remote that I would never see it again, and that even if I did, I wouldn’t recognize it.
So I went for a run. And things got better.
I felt like things could not possibly get worse, so I went for a run. And things got better.
(Another time, I felt like things could not get much better. I went for a run. Things got much better.)
After enough miles, over enough runs and enough years, I realized: No matter what, no matter when, or where, or why, I can find my shoes and go for a run and things will get better.
And that realization? Just knowing that?
It made things better.
"-Mark Remy, Runners World
http://www.runnersworld.com/fun/so-i-went-run
(via rtpforgotr)
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
―Susan SontagPainting: Marc Chagall, Interior with Flowers, 1918
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"But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling."
Margaret Atwood (via armsoreal)
(via caturdayasusual)
"Basically I feel the most lonely when I’m supposed to be feeling a connection but can’t or won’t or don’t. You bank on feeling one way and you end up feeling another. That’s the worst. That’s far more isolating than eating brunch alone or going to the movies alone or being awake at 5am. Because those are choices. You are doing a solitary activity. You expect it. You don’t expect, however, to feel completely alone at a bar or a party. You left your apartment to socialize and you ended up feeling more disconnected than when you started. That was not supposed to happen! That’s why, for me, life has the ability to wound me more when I’m outside and doing social activities than it does when I’m alone in my bedroom. Nothing can hurt me when I’m alone, besides myself. It’s the other people that I worry about, it’s the other people that can really make me feel truly lonely."
When I’m Lonely, Ryan O’Connell for Thought Catalog
"People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer."
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
"I don’t remember
lighting this cigarette
and I don’t remember
if I’m here alone
or waiting for someone"
Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing (via dulcetdecember)
(Source: theburnthatkeepseverything, via quiethouses)
