My fear of hurting others produced more pain in the end.
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947
Etikett: quote
I frighten people. I don’t sleep a wink. I don’t know what to do.
Arthur Rimbaud, from a letter to his mother written c. April 1891
“Sad. I drink wine. Terrible feeling of being abandoned. Even if I hugged all the beings of the world to my breast, I would remain unprotected.”
— Albert Camus, from American Journals
Thoughts of her come upon my mind gently, / As dew upon the petals of roses.
Ezra Pound, from Exultations; “Laudantes Decem Pulchritudinis Johannae Templi,”
I’d like to walk around in your mind someday.
Vashti Bunyan
I want it back, I want it back / What was taken from me, I want it back.
Chelsea Wolfe, from Hisspun; “Two Spirit,”
I don’t just want to take your breath away. I want to rip it from your mouth and keep it locked away between my teeth. You can only have it back if you kiss me again.
Meggie Royer, Literary Sexts (via sweetlickerish)
Goodnight and great love to you. We see the same stars.
George Mallory, from a letter to his wife Ruth during the 1921 Everest Reconnaissance Expedition (via archaeologicals)
Please come to bed and let me see you and feel you.
The sensitive suffer more; but they love more, and dream more.
Augusto Cury
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