October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
2 posts
11 tags
“The bottom is loaded with nice people, Albert. Only cream and bastards rise.”
– Paul Newman in Harper.
July 2011
5 posts
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I can’t get over the impertinence of that young lieutenant. I’ll...”
– Henry Gatewood in John Ford’s Stagecoach
“They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
June 2011
6 posts
“myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
– joseph campbell (via wirrow)
“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.”
– Jane Wagner, the New Shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung (via nearerthemoon)
May 2011
2 posts
“Nobody ever lies about being lonely.”
– Montgomery Cliff (From From Here To Eternity)
April 2011
4 posts
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
(via misswallflower)
January 2011
3 posts
December 2010
9 posts
“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”
– “Let the Great World Spin” by Colum McCann (via julie911)
“This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via reluctantbuddha)
“I can give my teachings in brief. I can teach in detail. It is those who...”
– Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
November 2010
5 posts
“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”
– Joseph Conrad (via thenthdegree)
October 2010
6 posts
“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with...”
– Carl Jung
What I thought of myself after "she" left.
I’m a mix between an embittered film noir gumshoe and a cranky old man that shoots at cats. I’ve been left somewhat direction-less at the age of 23, the only real bearing I have left is that I’m looking to share my life like it’s a secret, the kind that makes people inseperable.
That’s from an antiquated website bio I recently came across.
It’s kinda sad...
“Nearly all destruction or self-destruction, almost all hatred and sorrow, almost...”
– Lao Tseu via desirenoir
Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language
ninaninaninanina:
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you...
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
6 posts
“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of think absolute clarity, when for a...”
– A Single Man (via quote-book)
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
