February 2012
15 posts
“To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Anaïs Nin —
“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it....”
– Franz Kafka
“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a God lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. Thus by existence tortured and oppressed i crave for death, I long for rest.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Part One
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not...”
– Emily Dickinson
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
7 posts
Haruki Murakami ―
“There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really...
November 2011
9 posts
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes...”
– Anais Nin
Depression Quotes
I’ve found an interesting site where people who suffer from any kind of depression can leave their notes, thoughts, stories etc.
http://www.depression-guide.com/depression-quotes.htm
“If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love...”
– Anaïs Nin, House of Incest (1936)
“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via erinaa)
October 2011
8 posts
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure...”
– William Gibson
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein
Jeanette Winterson ―
“On more than one occasion I have been ready to abandon my whole life for love. To alter everything that makes sense to me and to move into a different world where the only known will be the beloved. Such a sacrifice must be the result of love… or is it that the life itself was already worn out? I had finished with that life, perhaps, and could not admit it, being stubborn or afraid, or...
September 2011
3 posts
Anaïs Nin —
“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make. Please give me that heavy book. I need to put something heavy like that on top of my head. I have to place my feet under the pillows always, so as to be able to stay on earth. Otherwise I feel myself going away, going away at a tremendous speed, on account of my lightness. I know that I am...
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
10 posts
“While you have a thing it can be taken from you… but when you give it, you have...”
– James Joyce
“One eye sees, the other feels.”
– Paul Klee
Borghesia - "Noćne šetnje" →
Charles Bukowski -
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”