The less I needed, the better I felt.
— Charles Bukowski (via wildhorsescouldntdragmeaway)
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
— Françoise Sagan (via theriches)
What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.
— Sarah Kane (via girlinlondon)
Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so…empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.
— Ann Demeulemeester (via nicollecamille)
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.
— Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker (via brooklyn-forester)
Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.
— Heidegger (via nminusone)
There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters.
And I cannot find it. Hence this aimlessness…
— T. E. Lawrence (Letter to Eric Kennington)
She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.
— Joanne Harris (via aurevoirlola)
He stumbled into Portfolio Day late, hungover and unshaven, and proceeded to terrorize local design students with tales of his many professional disappointments. Later that evening he found himself at a pistol range, drunk as usual.
— (via magnificentruin)
I’ve noticed that women who observe things closely seem to make men uneasy.
— Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary (via i-ngenue)
Darling, all night
I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.
— Sylvia Plath, from “Fever 103°” (via proustitute)
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (via funeral)
I am more than bored, I’m restless.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via classicsreader)
