You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by.
Charles Bukowski (via iamyoursuppressedthoughts)
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees
Jean Paul Sartre (via staunchreality)
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust (via ahnuhlycious)
I want a trouble-maker for a lover,
Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame,
Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate,
Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.
Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame,
Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate,
Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.
From Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche (via kicking-edgar-allan-poe)
Those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.
Charles Bukowski (via justaddfashion)
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.
Jean-Paul Sartre (via amateur-escapoligist)
