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The Beauty In Chaos: Quotes
Quotes that capture the beauty & absurdity of life: emotions, mortality, relationships, spirituality, sense of self, & meaning
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Devin Kelly, from "How to Drown"
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"I remember when I could disappear
And the shattered glass formed a perfect mirror
The spray paint spelled white against the brown
We turned the volume up, but kept the music down
We kept the music down
We etched our names into the walls
(Never again, never again)
The doors couldn’t stand the wear of time
(When did it end? Where did it end?)
Mosaics miss their bluest tiles
(Never again, never again)
Oh please, suburban, take me home."
- Weatherbox is Dead, Mister Valentine
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"So it was confusing to live between these two extremes: fearing the closeness, then obsessively needing the comfort it provided, to be forever like a Ping-Pong ball going back and forth between the two."
Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park
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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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“Okay is just a word I use so I won’t have to talk about what’s inside. Okay is a word that means I am going to keep my secrets.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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Victoria Chang, from Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief; “Dear D,”
[Text ID: “We often speak of memory as something that lingers, that returns again and again. Maybe memory is more like a homicide, each time it returns, it’s a new memory, one that has murdered all the memories before.”]
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“I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.”
— Jack Gilbert, from “Waking at Night”
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“Desire builds me a rotten church to lay down in.”
— Duncan Slagle, from “Ghazal for the Loneliness that Must Have Killed Lilith,” FATHER HUNT (via 89words)
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“By now I was so cold it felt like burning.”
— Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”
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“By now I was so cold it felt like burning.”
— Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”
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so the past splits in two: // one stays in the past and dies // one past shape-shifts / walks with you.
Camille Rankine, "Necessity Defense of Institutional Memory" from Incorrect Merciful Impulses
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"Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. You might be afraid of the pain that deep love can cause. When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. The pain that comes from deep love makes your love even more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root and grow into a strong plant. Every time you experience the pain of rejection, absence, or death, you are faced with a choice. You can become bitter and decide not to love again, or you can stand straight in your pain and let the soil on which you stand become richer and more able to give life to new seeds."
The Inner Voice of Love | Henri Nouwen
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“With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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"My god, will I ever not be
surprised by what I can survive?"
Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”
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“Each year is like putting a new coat over all the old ones. Sometimes I reach into the pockets of my childhood and pull things out.”
— Simon Van Booy, from “Little Birds,” The Secret Lives of People in Love (Turtle Point Press, 2007)
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"You know me, I'm just trying to pass as someone who won't get beaten up, who won't get shouted at."
- Crywank, Unassimilated Normie
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May Sarton, "Of Grief", Selected Poems
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