joonie

“It is beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the minds is not influenced and contaminated by society.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I'm nostalgic for the anger I once had.”
― Takuboku Ishikawa

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.”
― Hermann Hesse, Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte

“I want to go to the mountains,
I want to go to the sea,
I want to go to a place where no one knows me,
I want to be lost among the people who speak a language I don’t understand at all.”
― Takuboku Ishikawa, Romaji Diary and Sad Toys