❝What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.❞

— Sylvia Plath  (via vita-incerta)

(Source: hellanne)

❝There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.❞

—  Friedrich Nietzsche,  Also sprach Zarathustra (via room42)

(Source: saloandseverine)

❝The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.❞

— Haruki Murakami  (via ceedling)

(Source: wordsthat-speak)

❝There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature.❞

— William Upski Wimsatt (via radicalginger)

❝It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it’s mine.❞

— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via blua)

❝Three o’clock. Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.❞

— Jean-Paul Sartre (La Nausée, 1938)

(Source: tulve)

❝bring me your malice
your angry, your spiteful
tie them in a knot tightly and leave them at my door
bring me your drunk, your stubborn
your clenched fist
I will bring you mine
bring me your impatience
your stranger, your ghosts
wring out the silent screams
soaking your pillow
bring them to me
bring them all to me
you do not have to repent for the parts of you that
don’t see the daylight
you do not have to burn your old self
to the ground just to make room
for me
bring me your bad, your worst, your loneliest
I will kiss them each where it hurts
if it does not help
I will turn the other cheek
I will put out the fire bring me your rickety bridge
your 400 foot fall if it breaks
I am not afraid of you
I am not afraid of you
I am not afraid of you❞

— she won the world at a carnival 

❝the first word I teach my daughter will be “no”
she will sing it to me and scream it at me
and I will never tell her to quiet down
she will say it when I tell her to go to bed
when I tell her she can’t have anymore candy
or watch anymore television
“no” will be my daughter’s favorite word
not only will I teach her how to say it
but I will teach her to repeat it over and over
again until every single atom in her tiny little body
hums with it
If it makes her less soft than the other girls
I will take her to museums and show her
what marble and stone can become
I will brush her hair and let her wear whatever
she wants
whatever that makes her
she will know
that the world has been built upon “no’s”
upon rejections and refusals and swords
if this makes her a warrior in a field of
flowers, then she will walk without fear
of being trampled on
the first word I teach my daughter will be
“no”
and when she grows up
in a world that tells her
she can’t walk down the street by herself
that “no” will be heard
it will roar and echo down the block
and she will never be told to keep
silent
she will not know the meaning of the word.❞

— The First Word I Teach My Daughter (via pression)

❝I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life which I could find no meaning.❞

— Charles Bukowski (via 9tears)

(Source: hellanne)

❝If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.❞

— Charles Bukowski (via picalla)

(Source: ottawaquin)