January 2010
“I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space,...”
– Hamlet
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...”
– The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the...”
– JD Salinger (RIP)
“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be...”
– Louisa May Alcott (via deathwearsdiamondjewellery)
“Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this...”
– The Great Gatsby
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou
“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none.”
“There are people who deserve you and people who don’t. If you have someone in...”
“Mathematics may not teach us how to inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, or...”
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
– C.S Lewis
I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God’s place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
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“My, philosophy is, basically this. And this is something that I live by. And I...”
– Michael Scott
“Oh, Edward!
The point is that since I’ve been away
I see that I’ve...”
– T.S Eliot ( The Cocktail Party)
and pretty much how I feel right now.
“Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into...”
– Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis (The Concept of Anxiety ,1844) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
MAY: Stubborn and hard-hearted. Strong-willed and highly motivated. Sharp thoughts. Easily angered. Attracts others and loves attention. Deep feelings. Beautiful physically and mentally. Firm Standpoint. Needs no motivation. Easily consoled. Systematic (left brain). Loves to dream. Strong clairvoyance. Understanding. Sickness usually in the ear and neck. Good imagination. Good physical. Weak...
“ that’s one thing earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough:...”
– Cat’s Cradle (via amyymarie)
Thought that was in Slaughterhouse 5. In fact I’m pretty sure it is as I just read it.
I like that quote though.
(via -laurenm-)
haha no you’re totally right. I’m constantly confusing Vonnegut books. Isn’t that terrible?