"It is true that I am endowed with an absurd sensitiveness; what scratches others tears me to pieces."
"She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world."
- Emily Brontë (via somberlily)
(Source: mylittlebookofquotes)
"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."
"I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Notes from Underground
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(via loversoft)
"I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don’t like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired."
"I wanted “peace”, to be left alone in my…world. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe."
"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)
(Source: endless-unfolding)