Letters && Words

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

—Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via loveyourchaos)

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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

—Buddha (via dopatonin)

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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky (via dopatonin)

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Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

—Haruki Murakami (via fluffynips)

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I tried again to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously: my inward tranquillity was broken.

—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via seabois)

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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.

—Albert Einstein  (via tiportiff)

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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

—Charles Bukowski (via seducemymind)

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I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist…I am a person who does those things.

—Edward Gorey (via dopatonin)

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Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

—Eckhart Tolle (via dopatonin)

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Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself; know what you want.

—Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via dopatonin)

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