I get so sick of all this breathing. Living requires so much effort.
Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives, and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing, and they’re dead before they die.
- Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.
- Noel Fielding
Headlights or taillights, it’s a flip of a coin.
I have been coming and going since the day i was born,
and i followed the breadcrumbs but i never got home.
- Soul Singer in a session band - Bright eyes
The wind knocks the heads of the flowers together.
Steam rises from every cup at every table at once.
Things happen all the time, things happen every minute
That have nothing to do with us.
- A Primer for the Small Weird loves by Richard Siken
There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
- The Fault in our Stars by John Green
And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.
- The Fault in our Stars by John Green
(Source: stoptheclockforever)
I am sending you
postcards from a place
where i am not.We’re not tourists, we’re travelers
A tourist is someone who
thinks about going home the
moment they arriveWhereas a traveler
might not come
back at all.
- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky.
So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my sufferances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger - because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
- Jack Kerouac
