You’ve lost touch with the person You thought you were. You no longer feel quite human.
— T.S. Eliot, from “The Cocktail Party.”
R
amor fati
(via honeeymoon)
I don’t belong in the world, that’s what it is. Something separates me from other people.
(via latibule-e)
“Be strong enough to let go, and wise enough to wait for what you deserve.”— Unknown
Sujata Bhatt, from “The One Who Goes Away”, The Stinking Rose
[Text ID: “But I am the one / who always goes away. // The first time was the most – / was the most / silent.”]
(via latibule-e)
“All I could see in front of me was loss and darkness.”
Margaret Atwood, from ‘The Testaments’
(via latibule-e)
I think, well, I just wanted the pleasure without feeling. But something holds me back. There is in me something untouched, unstirred, which commands me. That will have to be moved if I am to move wholly.
— Anaïs Nin, from Henry & June; A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932–1934)
