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#1

“Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

tags: tragedy

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#2

“A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.”
― RJ Gonzales, Mundahlia

tags: birth-complications, death, loss, loss-of-a-baby, miscarriage, sad, sadness, tragedy

52 likes

#3

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

58025 likes

#4

“Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: husbands, lies

37 likes

#5

“Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then when it happened, you worked hard to look away from it, because there was nothing you could do about it - not even grieve, because you knew that it would happen again and maybe in a way that was worse than before. Grieving is possible only when you know you have come to an end, when there is nothing more to follow. This city was full of bottled-up grief.”
― Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is Too Great

tags: city, grief, karachi, violence

27 likes

#6

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12710 likes

#7

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin

6286 likes

#8

“Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done.”
― Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness

tags: completion, nature, patience, rushing, time

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#9

“In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human history!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: dramatic, drastic, human-history, ildan-wisdom, ildan-wise-sayings, ildan-words, intellectual, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotations, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, mosque, mosques, museum, museums, progression, sinagogue, sinagogues, turkish-authors, turkish-literature, turkish-playwrights, turkish-quotations, turkish-quotes, turkish-wisdom-words, turkish-writers

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#10

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
― John Muir, Our National Parks

tags: hiking, mountains, nature, wilderness

1114 likes

#11

“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

tags: adventure, arrogance, humility, inspirational, mountaineering, mountains, oblivion

300 likes

#12

“What it means to be authentic:
- to be more concerned with truth than opinions
- to be sincere and not pretend
- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"
- to know who you are and to be that person
- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities
- being confident to walk away from situations where you can't be yourself
- being awake to your own feelings
- being free from others' opinions of you
- accepting and loving yourself”
― Sue Fitzmaurice

tags: authenticity, feelings, inspiration, life, opinions, purpose, sincerity, truth, vulnerability

225 likes

#13

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

tags: beauty, life, photo, photograph, photography, photos, picture, pictures

760 likes

#14

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange

tags: life, photography

662 likes

#15

“Sounds like that happens to you a lot. Bet your girlfriend wasn't thrilled, though." She wasn't sure why she said it, but it came out before she could think. "Who said I have a girlfriend?" He said, raising his scarred eyebrow. His dark eyes crinkled. "No one," she said. " Well, I don't anymore, if anyone's interested."
"Who's interested?"
"Are you?" He looked her straight in the eye.
"I could ask the same of you," she scoffed.
"So what if I was? Interested, I mean." He shrugged.
"It wouldn't be a surprise," she said. "I'm sure half the crew has a crush on me.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Frozen

tags: frozen, girlfriend, love, natasha-kestal, ryan-wesson

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#16

“I was a prisoner inside my own body. I felt desperate, angry, stupid, confused, ashamed, hopeless and absolutely alone... and that this was of my own making. I could speak at home, how come I couldn't outside it? I have never been able to find the right words to describe what it was like. Imagine that for one day you are unable to speak to anyone you meet outside your own family, particularly at school/college, or out shopping, etc., have no sign language, no gestures, no facial expression. Then imagine that for eight years, but no one really understands. It was like torture, and I was the only person that knew it was happening. My body and face were frozen most of the time. I became hyperconscious of myself when outside the home and it was a relief to get back as I was always exhausted. I attempted to hide it (an impossible task) because I felt so ashamed that I couldn't do what other people seemed to find so natural and easy - to speak. At times I felt suicidal.”
― Carl Sutton, Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood

tags: alone, anger, body, confusion, desperate, expressionless, frozen, hopeless, prisoner, selective-mutism, shame, silent, speaking, stupid, suicide, torture

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#17

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing

1256 likes

#18

“aqal k andhon main chup hay faraaz
kitni sayani is pagal ki batain hain”
― AHMED FARAAZ

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#19

“I Cannot Remember

I once was a poet too (you gave life to my words), but now I cannot remember
Since I have forgotten you (my love!), my art too I cannot remember

Yesterday consulting my heart, I learned
that your hair, lips, mouth, I cannot remember

In the city of the intellect insanity is silence
But now your sweet, spontaneous voice, its fluidity, I cannot remember

Once I was unfamiliar with wrecking balls and ruins
But now the cultivation of gardens, I cannot remember

Now everyone shops at the store selling arrows and quivers
But neglects his own body, the client he cannot remember

Since time has brought me to a desert of such arid forgetfulness
Even your name may perish; I cannot remember

In this narrow state of being, lacking a country,
even the abandonment of my fellow countrymen, I cannot remember”
― Ahmad Faraz

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#20

“You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.”
― Mira Grant, Blackout

tags: going-home

17 likes

#21

“And when, at last, .... I stood in London with ten pounds in my hand - five of which I promptly lost - the ancestors dwelling in my blood who, all my life, had summoned me with insistent eldritch voices, murmured together, like contented cats.”
― P.L. Travers, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story

tags: ancestors, england, going-home

14 likes

#22

“I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script

tags: equality, feminism, idolizing, male-insecurity, muse, peace-of-mind

700 likes

#23

“You don't have to stay anywhere forever.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

455 likes

#24

“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tags: existentialism, kafka, metamorphosis, trial

171 likes

#25

“Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.”
― Russell Brand

tags: children, conformity, glory, rebellion

416 likes

#26

“From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.”
― Louise Gluck

243 likes

#27

“Intense love always leads to mourning.”
― Louise Gluck, The Triumph of Achilles

125 likes

#28

“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”
― Louise Glück

tags: love, unrequited-love

171 likes

#29

“Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.”
― Louise Glück

tags: american, louise-glück, poetry, women-writers

31 likes