April 2012
95 posts
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I...”
– Anaïs Nin, Henry & June (via larmoyante)
“The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand...”
– Baruch Spinoza (via philosophy-quotes)
“One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live...”
– Albert Camus, The Rebel (via fromtheinsight)
“I will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the...”
– e.e. cummings (via rachelmaenad)
“In moments of temptation or indecision - for example, when the man who has...”
– Sartre, 1943 (via emmabutton)
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“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as...”
– T.S. Eliot (via jerzee55)
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
– Charles Bukowski (via loveyourchaos)
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“Pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night is also a sun – be gone,...”
– Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
– Charles Dickens (via seinedoll)
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“In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech”
– T. S. Eliot, from “The Hollow Men” (via proustitute)
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in...”
– Carl Gustav Jung (via quintessenceofacliche)
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“Never consider man as an end because he is always in the making.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions (via thingsiveunderlined)
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“Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.”
– Goethe
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via alecshao)
“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the...”
– David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
(via this-is-not-here)
“The one who realizes in anguish his condition as being thrown into a...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions (via thingsiveunderlined)
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“It is indeed impossible to imagine our own death; and whenever we attempt to do...”
– Freud, Our Attitude Towards Death
“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is...”
– T. S. Eliot (via robcayman)
“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”
– Plato (via thelittlephilosopher)
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
– Charles Bukowski (via durianseeds)
“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”
– Jack Kerouac (via quintessenceofacliche)
“We conceive of the individual animal as a small world, existing for its own...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Suhrkamp ed., vol 12, p. 121; trans. Douglas Miller, Scientific Studies (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.”
– Rollo May
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“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
– Edgar Allen Poe
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“Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”
– Rollo May
“When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears....”
– Albert Camus - A Happy Death (via quintessenceofacliche)
“The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and...”
– Buddha (via thelittlephilosopher)
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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“One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.”
– Sartre
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“Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it...”
– Rollo May
“My whole life has been nothing but futile wandering and pursuits, a great deal...”
– Ingmar Bergman (via hohlheit) 