Inadequate Quiet Obsessions.

"Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached"

- Aphorisms, Franz Kafka (via kidsonswings)

"I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic."

-  F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via lofosho)

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald (via narcotic)

"Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about it is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on. Like taxes, the tide rising and falling, John Lennon’s death, and miscalls by referees at the World Cup."

- Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)  (via kelly-literary)

"I don’t suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don’t have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn’t hear."

- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (via bluesandbarebones)

"An uneasy feeling …
This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I’ve somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles. Whatever it is, at times like these I toss down a whiskey and hit the sack. And when I get up in the morning, things are even worse."

- Murakami (via quetuagoniajamastermine)

"Radical acceptance — accepting your situation for what it is without placing judgement on it."

- Unknown (via lajoiedespetiteschoses)

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"You’re terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you."

- Jonathan Tropper (via middlenameconfused)

"When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble"

- P150, Norwegian Wood (via thinkcache)

"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."

-  John Irving (via middlenameconfused)

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal."

-  Paulo Coelho   (via paperlover)

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"But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would become special and precious, wouldn’t it?"

- Haruki Murakami (via katrinaworks)

"You cannot save people. You can only love them."

- Anaïs Nin (via marchist)

"Don’t give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down."

- Ann Landers  (via paperlover)

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