August 2012
89 posts
anthrodynia
n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
“I guess it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self control, doing worse damage to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”
—Chuck Palahniuk
“Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I’ve been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. I feel like it must be universal. Everybody must know that somewhere.”
—Laura Marling
一番綺麗な微笑みは、辛かったことすべてに立ち向って来た人の微笑みです。
The most beautiful smile is the one who fought all the tears.
“Breathe, my friend. You are not old, you are young. You are not a mess, you are normal. Extraordinary, perhaps. In the blink of an eye your life will change. And it will continue to change for decades to come. Enjoy it, embrace it…be grateful for the ride. You are not old, you are young. And faith will get you everywhere. Just you wait.”
—Abby Larson, advice for her 23 year old self
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
—Charles Bukowski
“When we met I was wrecked, blasted and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you’re a human being and I would like to be one too.”
—Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”
—Kate Chopin, 1899
