“While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies and, of course, the teachings of Mohamed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I’d be a hypocrite.”
— Stephen Hyde, That 70s Show (via thoughtsofasun-drenchedelsewhere)
• 31 March 2013 • 126 notes
“If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.”
— Michael Corleone, The Godfather part II (via thefirstwordthatcomestomind)
• 30 March 2013 • 62 notes
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
— Carl Jung (via redheadmagic)
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• 8 December 2012 • 132 notes
“But we have other lives, I think, I hope,” she murmured. “We live in others,…We live in things.”
— Virginia Woolf, Between The Acts (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
• 2 December 2012 • 464 notes
“I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you.”
— Jeanette Winterson (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
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• 26 November 2012 • 13,172 notes
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (via litquotelibrary)
• 21 November 2012 • 69 notes
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“I love to write and I assure you I write regularly … But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.” — from the desk of J.D. Salinger
• 13 November 2012 • 2,264 notes
“Modern man can know himself only in so far as he can become conscious of himself, a capacity largely dependent on environmental conditions, the drive for knowledge and control of which necessitated or suggested certain modifications of his original instinctive tendencies. His consciousness therefore orients itself chiefly by observing and investigating the world around him, and it is to its peculiarities that he must adapt his psychic and technical resources. This task is so exacting, and its fulfillment so advantageous, that he forgets himself in the process, losing sight of his instinctual nature and putting his own conception of himself in place of his real being. This way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively replace reality.”
— Carl Jung (via discovermind)
• 11 November 2012 • 27 notes
“Stories that don’t keep the writer up at night, won’t keep the reader up at night.”
— Robert Liparulo (via wordpainting)
• 8 November 2012 • 1,316 notes
