February 2012
19 posts
“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real...”
– Karl Marx Note: economists have become less poetic over the years
allie93nc:
…can’t…stop…watching…
“as an endless dream it went on; the spirit of the past brooding over a new...”
– this side of paradise, f. scott fitzgerald. (via youburnbriight)
January 2012
9 posts
“Sail on Silver Girl,
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams...”
– Paul Simon
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of...”
– A Girl You Should Date via @brainpicker (via bookshelfporn)
“And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a...”
– There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
December 2011
47 posts
“We’re just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,...”
“Love is hard and love is messy and it can hurt worse than fire and sometimes it...”
– Adult Female by Hank Green (via ihopeyoutubefilmsthis)
“Who knows what true happiness is? Not the conventional word but the naked...”
– Joseph Conrad - Under Western Eyes
“Life is very long when you’re lonely.”
– The Smiths
“Happy endings are much rarer in stories, and also in life, than most people...”
– Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie (via doubtingbones)
“This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper.”
– T.S. Eliot
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has...”
– A Girl by Ezra Pound
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
– Sigmund Freud (via livingmorbid)
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“A winter’s day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my...”
“Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together.
I’ve got some real estate...”
– Simon & Garfunkel (via hurricanenika)
