Must one suffer eternally, or eternally ο¬ee from beauty? Nature, pitiless enchantress, always victorious rival, let me be! Tempt no longer my desires and my pride! The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist screams with fear before being vanquished.Charles Baudelaire
I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope.Carl Jung
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine’s Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world’s puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.Hermann Hesse
Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.Nikita Gill
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.Eckhart Tolle
Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and WeptWaiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.C.S. Lewis
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.Salman Rushdie
Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.Norm Franz
Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind’s way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.
Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying ‘time heals all wounds’ is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.
Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.
When we’re invited to a banquet, we take whatever is served, and if anyone should ask his host to serve him with fish or cakes, he would be thought eccentric; and yet in the wider world, we ask the gods for things that they don’t give us, irrespective of the many things that they actually have given us.Epictetus
To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that’s rare…That’s rare and valuable.Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories
…I’ve got nature & art & poetry, & if that isn’t enough, what is?Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.William James
Almost everyone has some person from the past who continues to stick in their soul like a deep splinter. You know who I’m talking about. The most obvious example is the lover who dumped you years ago for reasons you still don’t understand, or accept. The bully who tormented you in school, the teacher who inspired you and opened doors in your brain or soul that you didn’t know existed. A neighbor who suffered and died with dignity but remained kind and thoughtful right up until the end. Ironically in some cases if you were to go to these people now and tell them what a lasting effect they have had on you, they would be genuinely surprised or perplexed. Because in truth you were only a very small cloud on their horizon, a blip on their screen, or someone they forgot very quickly. But boy, you sure remember *them*.Jonathan Carroll
I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.~Vincent van Gogh, Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
Oscar Wilde -After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
There are poets who sing you to sleep
and poets who ready you for war
and I want to be both.
The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race.
