- lypophrenia: a feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause.
- drapetomania: an overwhelming urge to runaway.
- escapism: a mental desire to retreat from unpleasant realities through fantasy.
- wanderlust: a desire to travel, to understand one’s very existence.
- dysania: the state of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning.
- sanctuary: a small safe place in a troubling world.
- metathesiophobia: fear of change (via mirroir)
July 2011
June 2011
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.”
—Chuck Palahniuk (via trua)
“Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”
—William Goldman (via kari-shma)
I’m not sure if I loved you, or if I loved that you rescued me from loneliness.
“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
—Stephen Chbosky (via thresca)
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
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Marilyn Monroe (via skeletales)
sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together I gotta remember that
“[As a child] I lived for books, and was sustained by literary characters with whom I could identify – I was your basic, common-or-garden bookworm, complete with freckles and National Health spectacles.”
—J.K. Rowling (via knockturn)
“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.”
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
“See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks.
I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.” —Sylvia Plath (via 24ribs)
I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.” —Sylvia Plath (via 24ribs)
"Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times." - Betsey Johnson
“what a world, you think: eat, work, fuck, die.”
—The Last Night of the Earth Poems - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“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 (via loveyourchaos)
