What the hell. What the hell? I like you. Yes, for god’s sake I do like you, when shall I ever not like you?

Franz Kafka, from Letters To Felice (via violentwavesofemotion)

What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?

by Sylvia Plath from “Three Women” (via shakespears)

She was like a person walking in calm water; for some reason, the sea couldn’t bring itself to hurt her.

Louise Glück, from Ararat (via victoriajoan)

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Margaret Atwood (via psych-facts)

In this world, we must love the liars or go unloved.

Sherman Alexie, from “Idolatry”, a short story published in Blasphemy (via the-final-sentence)

You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.

Ryan O'Connell, The People You Will Fall In Love With In Your 20s (via wordsnquotes)

At first, I’m impressed by the inventiveness of the stories. But then, on more sober reflection, it always strikes me how dull and routine these accounts are; what a compilation of unimaginative, stale ideas, chauvinisms, hopes and fears dressed up as facts….What a failure of the imagination!

Carl Sagan, about the bible (via whats-out-there)

I am mine, before I am anyone else’s.

Nayyirah Waheed (via mysharona1987)

Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you’re thinking but because you’re feeling. Because you’re feeling too much. And you can’t always control the things you do when you’re feeling too much.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (via seulray)

There were people that were only interested in my politics and my music, and there were people that were into [me] just because I had a hit called “Paper Planes.” Leaving politics out of music is a new concept. It’s not an old concept. Slaves sang when they fucking crossed the river. It’s a new thing for us to remove that in order to make monetization easy.

M.I.A. (via theharpsichordisbroken)

I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

Ed Begley Junior  (via wordsnquotes)

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin (via philosophy-quotes)

I didn’t mean it. I was just angry at something. I didn’t mean I didn’t love you.

Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway (via violentwavesofemotion)

I’m not much like myself any more.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (via worthystyle)

and there were times when I knew how you felt and it was hell to know it.

Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita (via spacebetweenthespaces)

Who could have imagined that our quest to decode the mysteries of the universe, armed with myriad artificial senses, would grant us insight into ourselves? We embark on this quest not from a simple desire, but from a mandate of our species to search for our place in the cosmos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (via whats-out-there)

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”

Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (via wordsnquotes)