“I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.”
— Katie Kacvinsky (via quotemadness)
yall ever just yearn? ever get filled with the most profound sense of longing for something you cant understand? yall ever crave? ever have an unexplainable ache?
— Marina Tsvetaeva, from Yesterday He Still Looked In My Eyes in “Bride Of Ice: New Selected Poems.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, from “The Woman Destroyed.”
Jack Gilbert, from Collected Poems; “Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina”
— Emil M. Cioran, from “The Trouble with Being Born.”
— Paul Valéry, from Collected Works; “The Voice of Things.”
— May Sarton, from a journal entry.
— Paul Valéry, from Collected Works; “The Voice of Things.”
— May Sarton, from a journal entry.
Jack Gilbert, from Collected Poems; “The Answer”
Cillian Murphy Rolling Stone UK (2023)
— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness.”
Would you speak this way to trees?
Matt Haig, The Comfort Book
May you live an existence that doesn’t require constant resilience.
Love really is a flavor, an ingredient, a fragrance, a texture, a memory and this exact moment in time and a feeling that wraps around the heart and wafts off the body like an aura
— Amal El-Mohtar, from This Is How You Lose the Time War (via lunamonchtuna)
Sylvia Plath
