December 2011
Zielschmerz
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
– Anne Frank (via pavorst)
“[The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light, so much light it...”
– Lauren Oliver, from Before I Fall (thanks, pastpresentpritta)
“Gently disintegrate me
Said nothing at all.”
– W. S. Graham, from “Enter a Cloud” (via the-final-sentence)
“I see that I must give what I most need.”
– Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces (via wowloverly)
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe (via larmoyante)
“Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die...”
– J. D. Salinger | via waitingforananswer (via quote-book)
