- "Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old" - Franz Kafka
- "This is love, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?" - Everything is Illuminated
- "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us…We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us" — Franz Kafka
- "Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable" — John Patrick
- "Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass" - Japanese proverb
- “Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.” — Henry Rollins
- “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” — Franz Kafka
- "I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they’re like little flowers. I’ve always said that if you have a name for something, like ‘cut’ or ‘bruise,’ people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don’t know what it is, it can be very beautiful." - David Lynch
- Don’t you hate that? Uncomfortable silence. Why do we feel it’s necessary to talk about bull in order to feel comfortable? That’s when you know you’ve found somebody really special. When you can just shut the hell up for a minute and comfortably share a silence - Pulp Fiction
- There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors. - Tennessee Williams
- I keep imagining I’m somewhere where it’s cold and rainy. I keep wishing I was somewhere with someone who wanted me around. I keep imagining winter outside my door. I keep imagining that there are leaves all over my floor. I keep feeling like tomorrow might surround me with all that today has left me without and that it might just be worth it. I keep feeling alone, and I keep feeling locked up. I keep humming to myself and waiting for my harmony, for the sound of hope to stand next to me because I think it’s going to enter without a whisper. Or so I keep thinking. - Kyle Young
nov 1 2008 ∞
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