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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 44e871a | The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 7699ee4 | I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don't own this world. I've had enough. It's not supposed to be my fault. Only now.. Only now that I realized.. I hate this world now, living in this world where 'promise', 'bond' and 'eternity' don't exist, and living in a world full fo strangers is a very, very scary thing. Scared that there's no guarantee that I'll be loved. You can't be living with people.. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 94487f8 | Strangely enough, when you get older the things you didn't understand when you were a child start to make sense. "When this happened, I should have done that." "When that happened, I should have said this." those types of things. You start to understand rather than regret. It may be closer to repentance. So it may be that I do want to repent and erase the ignorant self from my childhood." | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 40598a4 | The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget about being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that--well, lucky you. | Philip Roth | ||
| 739c8c0 | In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too difficult, therefore it's the classics that are to blame. Today the student asserts his incapacity as a privilege. I can't learn it, so there is something wrong with it. And there is something especially wrong with the bad teacher who wants to teach it. There are no more criteria, Mr. Zuckerman, only opinions. | education humanities | Philip Roth | |
| 49b23d1 | There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play. | father human-nature | Philip Roth | |
| 23d43e7 | The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under the lamplight! But in the eyes of memory, how the world is cramped! | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 29d5207 | Charles Baudelaire's refusal was the most profound form of refusal, for it was in no way the assertion of an opposite principle. It only expressed that which was indefensible and impossible in the poet's obstructed state of mind. | Georges Bataille | ||
| bbaad64 | But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again. | Karen Russell | ||
| 3b601d0 | I don't want to suffer any more, I have had my mind broken open over and over before, I have been isolate and loveless always. I have not slept with anyone since I saw you, not because I was faithful but because I am afraid and I know no one. I will always be afraid I will always be worthless, I will always be alone till I die and I will be tormented long after you leave me. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 4d4d4c0 | Trees scream and drop bright leaves | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 9a9acde | Eat Eat said the sign | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 974e3f0 | When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 7249e8d | Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| d1aff5f | I write poetry because I want to be alone and want to talk to people. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| b747f03 | The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl) They censor words not the things they denote: It would create less of a stir to drop a piece of shit on Grant's tomb than to write it out in white paint. Because people recognize that's what memorials are for-old bums & dogs to shit on. | censorship memorial poetry | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 40dc702 | Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done but wander with my eyes in the trees? So I will build: wife, family, and seek for neighbors. Or I perish of lonesomeness or want of food or lightning or the bear (must tame the hart and wear the bear). And maybe make an image of my wandering, a little image--shrine by the roadside to signify to traveler that I live | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 16241b5 | O victory forget you're underwear we're free. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| c8bef00 | I am miserable now--not feeling unhappiness, just lack of life coming to me and coming out of me--resignation to getting nothing and seeking nothing, staying behind shell. The glare of unknown love, human, unhad by me,--the tenderness I never had. I don't want to be just a nothing, a sick blank, withdrawal into myself forever. I just want something, beside the emptiness I've carried around in me all my life. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 652b74f | One does not know yet whether Christ was God or the Devil - Buddha is more reassuring. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| e1fcc0a | America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 332672a | The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burde of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 56ba14d | Trees hang their branches | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 78d3671 | We the People - shelling the Vietcong | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| c11e028 | Eat Meat and your a beast | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| a62af8c | Machine chaos on Earth, Too many bodies, mouths bleeding on every Continent | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 0d35ae5 | False emotions broadcast thru the Land | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 54b330d | Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love spells with psychoanalysts his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars | heroin ignu junk junkies | Allen Ginsberg | |
| e2f8712 | Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 0e41bad | My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour and twenty-five-thousand mental institutions. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 2586273 | America America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb. I don't feel good don't bother me. I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind. America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes? When will you look at yourself through the grave? When wil.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 9897d19 | Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 20542f4 | When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird. | mgg michele-cook outrage the-singular-menace weird | John Sandford | |
| 41997ca | Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 8a6b939 | It was worth having made this break for the people, the human beings it had brought me into contact with. Although it had failed, my escape had been a victory, merely by having enriched my heart with the friendship of these wonderful people. No, I was not sorry. I had done it. | Henri Charrière | ||
| aa842c3 | Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 72c5b33 | So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they're gone, we reach for them. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f69f6e3 | You're never in love with anyone the way you are when you're eighteen, | Mitch Albom | ||
| f1309ed | Timing is everything. That's right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it's the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly" | Mitch Albom | ||
| aeec358 | When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2bfc3a1 | So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring! | Mitch Albom | ||
| b09fede | Never tell a child that something it's too hard | advice-for-women child children hard influence never tell too-hard | Mitch Albom | |
| e14d932 | Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 69efab4 | The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished. | Mitch Albom |