Tag: quote

cyberscully:

“Take your broken heart, make it into art.”

— Carrie Fisher, quoted by Meryl Streep

what-strange-lives-we-live:

“For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”

— Simon Van Booy

purplebuddhaproject:

“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.”

—

Jack Kerouac

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

books-n-quotes:

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

adrasteiax:

“Autumn approaches
and the heart begins to dream–”

— Bashō, from The Sound of Water: Haiku by Bashō, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets (trans. Sam Hamill with illustrations by Kaji Aso)

thesongremainsthesame:

“I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf (via thatkindofwoman)

ambientblackmetal:

“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”

— Elana Dykewomon, “Notes for a Magazine,” Sinister Wisdom #36 (Winter 1988/89)

cwote:

“The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper.”

— Henri Nouwen (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

violentwavesofemotion:

“Sorrow, such as I feel now, is soothing and natural, and makes life more worth having,”

—

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson wr. c. September 1904