May 2012
442 posts
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have...”
– Tom Stoppard, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” (Submitted by freunde-nicht-diese-toene)
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel...”
– Andrew Boy (via changingmyperspective)
“I wasn’t just the madwoman in the attic—I was the attic itself. The past was all...”
– Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming...”
– The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“self-congratulatory nonsense as the famous gather to applaud their seeming...”
– Charles Bukowski, Time is All Around: This.
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about...”
– Garcin from “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre (via wrmiii)
“Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.
It has been a beautiful...”
– You Get So Alone at Time That it Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“I thank you with all my heart (do not come) I shall write to you tomorrow. This...”
– Marcel Proust, from a letter to La Comtesse de Noailles, undated 1905 (source)
“But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him.
“That doesn’t matter.”
“What...”
– Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have...”
– Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing...”
– Richard Feynman (via ageofreason)
“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away....”
– Neil Gaiman’s Midnight Days, Neil Gaiman (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she’d wanted had...”
– The Little Friend, Donna Tartt (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do...”
– The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I...”
– Blue-Eyed Devil, Lisa Kleypas (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“It’s weird how time can change something you thought would always stay the same.”
– Susane Colasanti, Take Me There (via simply-quotes)
“I’ve always thought it was about finding the right person. But it’s about...”
– Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy (via simply-quotes)
“He is thinking about asymmetry. This is a world, he is thinking, where you can...”
– Paul Murray (via atomos) 