“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”
— Hermann Hesse
“I like seeing people when they can’t see me.”
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts; the moonless midnight of the mind.”
— Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing
“I live on the edge of a sleepy soul, a moist rose, and an infinite lilac sky beneath my chin.”
— M. Melia, The Unravelling Travelogue
“You felt no reality, no knife of sorrow cut your intestines to bits. Only a weariness, a longing for a shoulder to sleep on, and a pair of arms to curl up in.”
“I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky.”
— Haruki Murakami,
Sputnik Sweetheart (via
stxxz)
“If you can afford it, then there is no pleasure in buying it.”
— Wallis Simpson on shopping
“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
“There are possibilities for me, certainly, but under what stone do they lie?”
—
Franz Kafka, “Diaries”(1914)