This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper

The Hollow Men – T.S. Eliot (via paranoidr)

The voices of the world are becoming quieter and fewer.

Franz Kafka – from The Blue Octavo Notebooks (via watchoutforintellect)

tunguska-rdm:

The faded
light of the memories.

an ode to the words never born.

Tunguska.RdM

becauseitisjohnnydepp:

“You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.” – Winona Ryder

Time for some Winona.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anaïs Nin (via madness-and-gods)

Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pin-prick in the paper: you could put your eye to it and see through, to the other side, to the beginning of something else. Or, as Tony says to her students, Time is not a solid, like wood, but a fluid, like water or the wind. It doesn’t come neatly cut into even-sized lengths, into decades and centuries. Nevertheless, for our purposes we have to pretend it does. The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire.

The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)

I read; I travel; I become.

Derek Walcott
(via thatlitsite)

Words from one of the greats of our times: Derek Walcott.

I want to meet no one; I want to say nothing;
I want to go down and rest in the black earth of silence.

Robert Bly, from “Depression,” Eating the Honey of Words (HarperCollins, 1999)

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

(via the-random-quotes)

christopherleefan:

“…Message to my fans...“

Such beautiful words. RIP Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015).